Coconut shell cup

In Fijian traditions and ceremonies, a Coconut shell cup, also called a bilo, is used to serve kava and yaqona.

[1] The Samoan name for this cup is tauau or generally, ipu tau ʻava ('ava cup).

The coconut shell cup used for distributing the 'ava in a ʻAva ceremony is made from the half shell of a ripe coconut that has been cleaned and polished.

[2] It is sometimes ornamented with different designs, and after early European contact, it was sometimes decorated with inlaid silver.

Kava ('ava) makers (aumaga) of Samoa. A woman seated between two men with the round tanoa (or laulau) wooden bowl in front. Standing is a third man, distributor of the 'ava, holding the coconut shell cup (tauau) used for distributing the beverage.
Tanoa bowl on its side, coconut shell drinking cup ( ipu 'ava ), leaves of the kava plant and strainer