Kava Bowl
CultureSamoan
Dateca. 1900
MediumWood
DimensionsOverall: 7 × 14 1/2 inches (17.78 × 36.83 cm)
Credit LineGift of Therese Swarts Iverson
Object number2021.2.1
InscribedInscribed in black paint on the bottom of the bowl is “John L. Swarts, Coxswain, USN, 1901 – 1907” which seem to be on top of an older incised inscription. Also in faint marker “Samoa 190?”
MarkingsNone apparent
On View
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DescriptionCarved wooden bowl standing on eleven rounded legsProvenanceGiven to John Swarts (1886-1916); Wyandotte County, Kansas, ca. 1904, while on tour of duty in Solomon Islands; [with the family of Lloyd Swarts by at least 1929];
By inheritance to Therese Swarts Iverson, granddaughter of John Swarts, by 2020;
Her gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2020.
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