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Article by Christian Kaufmann BOWLS FROM THE ADMIRALTY ISLANDS CHRISTIAN KAUFMANN 195 At the very beginning of the twentieth century wooden bowls from the Admiralty islands became a much sought after collectable item. Fig. 1a. he taste for bowls had developed earlier in the nineteenth century in a general way when first bowls for the preparation of kava on the islands of western Polynesia and of the Polynesian Outliers even further west became known to foreign visitors. These bowls had at least four if not more legs supporting a wide open basin. 1 In due time, wooden bowls and wooden plates from the New Hebrides and the Banks Islands (now Vanuatu), the Santa Cruz Is - lands and the Solomon Islands 2 became well known, as did those, legless, from the Tami and Siassi Islands, off the Huon Peninsula of the north-eastern New Guinea mainland (Papua New Guinea). Specific forms of bowls were found to exist around the mouth of the Sepik and Ramu Rivers (Papua New Guinea) as well as further west in the area of the Lake Sentani (West Papua, Indonesia). From northern Vanuatu to northern New Guinea and also to the Admiralty Islands and Title pages. Large hemispherical bowl. the nearby Wuvulu and Aua group (also part of Lateral ornaments carved separately Papua New Guinea) wooden bowls are not used 3 and attached (tips restored). Lou Island, for the preparation of kava, but play specific region of Matankor. Hardwood. roles either as simple containers in varying con - L. 101 cm; H. 41.5 cm. Former collection texts, or as more prestigious recipients for the ceremonial presentation of food and, most of the Sacred Heart of Jesus Mission specifically among the Titan speakers (or (Herz Jesu Mission) in Hiltrop. Manus tru people, formerly known as Moanus) Inv. 4402-A. Barbier-Mueller Museum. of Manus Province in the Admiralty Islands, as containers for preserving items of special im - portance, like ancestral skulls and bones. 196 CHRISTIAN KAUFMANN Containers for Food and More: Bowls from the Admiralty Islands Figs 1a, b, c. Bowl with handles depicting stylized human figures (one is female, the other male). Hardwood. L. 46.5 cm; H. 18.3 cm; H. of the feet: 2.5 and 3.7 cm. Former George Ortiz collection. Inv. 4402-D. Barbier-Mueller Museum. Fig. 1b. Fig. 1c. Fig. 2. Rodolphe Festetics de Tolna, objects from the Admiralty Islands. Daggers, Ki-Ki-Bol, betel nuts, basin for drawing water, cup, breast ornaments, nose ornaments, sticks for eating betel nuts, etc. (vol. 2, p. 149). Inv. F.5913. Ethnographic Museum, Budapest. Drawn from Boulay 2007, p. 121. Containers for Food and More: Bowls from the Admiralty Islands CHRISTIAN KAUFMANN 197 Doreh-Bay ADMIRALTY ISLANDS Geelvink-Bay Aua Manusn Wuvulu Baluan Sentani Lake Tabar WEST PAPUA NEW IRELAND Sepik Ramu IRIAN JAYA BISMARCK ARCHIPELAGO Astrolabe-Bay Umboi Buka Eilanden PAPUA NEW (North NEW BRITAIN GUINEA Siassi Solomon Bougainville Huon NEW GUINEA ISLAND Peninsula Province) Purari Buin Digul Tami Choiseul S Aramia Trobriand Islands New Papua Golf Georgia Hus I. Sori I. Harengan I. Los Negros I. Buboi Papitalai Ndranou Hahai MANUS ISLANDD Loniu Pak I. Kali I. Iru Bipi I. Nauna I. TITAN TITAN TITAN Lou I. Rambutyo I. Mbuke I. Pam I. TITAN West Manus SF North-West Islands + Subgroup Titan Speakers Mouk I. East Manus SF South-East Islands SP Baluan I. 198 CHRISTIAN KAUFMANN Containers for Food and More: Bowls from the Admiralty Islands All over the Melanesian area bowls with a deeply Fig. 3. Large bowl acquired by Bühler. seul hollowed out body are often used besides forms Iru, eastern Manus. Wood. L. 148 cm; SOLOMON ISLANDS with a widely flared, transitional to decidedly H. 76 cm, D. 114 cm. flat-bottomed wooden plates, the latter serving Vb 10520. Museum der Kulturen Basel. for the preparation of food paste with a wooden pounder smashing roasted breadfruit or taro tu - Malaika bers. Wherever bowls end in handles which Guadalcanal mark a longitudinal axis they often become as - sociated with canoes with which they may share Makira (San Cristobal) Aorigi principal elements of decoration, resembling for (Santa Catalina) Santa Cruz I. example bow and stern. In north-western Melanesia forms of bowls and VANUATU plates vary even more widely than their func - TORRES ISLANDS BANK ISLANDS tions. For the Solomon Islands, and especially Gaua their eastern groups, Sandra Revolon has pre - sented a comprehensive survey of specific func - tions, of which some are mirrored by specific Vanuatu forms while others are not. 4 Of particular interest here is what Solomon Islanders have explained Melekula to her in regard to more recent developments. In N their local context the bowls on Aorigi are still being made for use in a specific ceremonial con - text, that is the ceremonies ending an extended period of mourning. For people who died a nor - mal death these bowls were – and still are – made to commemorate the deceased at the final New Caledonia ceremonies – Revolon speaks even, in a hypo - thetical way, of the bowls as made to embody, together with the food placed into them, the de - ceased. The bowl made for an individual who has died a ‘normal’ death – and these are by far the majority according to Revolon’s finding – may eventually be reused or even sold to foreigners, after the person’s spirit has left this world for good. 5 Containers for Food and More: Bowls from the Admiralty Islands CHRISTIAN KAUFMANN 199 Fig. 4 . Woman cooking with an undecorated round wooden bowl. Kali Island. Photo Christine Kocher Schmid, 1994. Drawn from Ohnemus 1998, p. 238, fig. 305. Fig. 5. Undecorated round wooden bowls were also used as receptacles containing raw materials used for making nets. Loniu Island. Photo Bühler; (F)Vb 1343 (detail). Drawn from Ohnemus 1998, p. 201, fig. 257. On the other hand, a powerful spirit will be born The bowls originating in the Admiralty Islands directly from the blood of those people who have do not fascinate less, although they do appear in died a death inflicted by force. A bowl is dedi - a rather different form and style of finishing. cated to such an individual and his spirit will help Furthermore, no such detailed study as that pre - the living descendants and followers to integrate viously referred to exists. However, Sylvia Ohne - part of the spirit and its ambiguous spiritual mus in publishing the collection of artefacts power mena into their own body. Bowls serving assembled by Alfred Bühler in 1932 on behalf of this second function have to be kept in the family the Museum der Kulturen, Basel devoted ten or clan to keep the ancestor’s spirit alive and pages to the presentation of a selection of four - happy in order to encourage the spirit to help the teen from the museum’s fifty-eight bowls. 6 living and to protect them. According to Revolon, Ohnemus also added remarkable details of infor - it is the beauty of both types of bowls that capti - mation from her own field observation. Going vates the gaze of the deceased’s spirit, a beauty beyond Alfred Bühler’s unpublished field notes enhanced by figurative elements of decoration of 1932 (which Hans Nevermann had been al - and linear patterns of shell, and the overall con - lowed to use for his monograph on the Hamburg trast between the white inlay made from lime or collection 7) she also reviewed information pub - shells and the blackened surfaces. The eye of the lished by other authors. Only more recent publi - Western observer is equally attracted. In this re - cations made it more widely known that an gard, the production for the tourist market in earlier interest in the bowls from the Admiralty Honiara, the capital of the Solomon Islands, is not Islands was stirred by collectors like Richard governed by a different canon. Parkinson 8 or the Hungarian Count Festetics de 200 CHRISTIAN KAUFMANN Containers for Food and More: Bowls from the Admiralty Islands Fig. 6c. The scarifications on the chest of this young Makantol woman are reminiscent of the ornamental designs drawn on the outside of the bowl reproduced figs 6a and b. Drawn from Ohnemus 1998, fig. 136. Fig. 6b. Detail of the external bottom of the bowl in fig. 6a. The decoration shows a succession of fine incisions. Barbier-Mueller Museum. Tolna ( fig. 2 )9 even before the Hamburg Südsee- we gather that by the time of his visit in 1932 Expedition in its first year under Professor carving the very large bowls used for communal Friedrich Fülleborn became active, while Captain feasts, once a speciality of Lou Island, had al - Carl Nauer of Norddeutscher Lloyd, 10 zoologist ready ceased for good, though he was still able Ludwig Cohn from Bremen, 11 and the van den to obtain a beautiful example ( fig. 3 ). Bühler says Broeks on the expedition of La Korrigane added that he succeeded in locating two still active cen - further additions to the substantial corpus of ob - tres of production, one on Bipi Island and one in jects. 12 In 2002 a selection of bowls collected the area of Baluan Island and Rambutyo Island. 16 over a period of one hundred years was shown However, in 1991 Ohnemus still identified and for the first time at an exhibition held at the met two carvers, one on Bipi Island and one on Rietberg Museum in Zurich devoted to the Arts Hus Island producing bowls for use or for sale. 17 of the Admiralty Islands. 13 It is in the light of these accumulated efforts both descriptive as well as analytical, and especially of the presen - tations by Sylvia Ohnemus 14 and also by Ton Otto, 15 that the seven bowls of the Barbier-Mueller col - lection ( title pages and figs 1, 6, 7, 13, 14 and 17 ) shall be placed into context.
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