{"id":9557,"date":"2022-07-13T10:47:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-13T14:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lammuseum.wfu.edu\/?p=9557"},"modified":"2024-06-20T11:18:28","modified_gmt":"2024-06-20T15:18:28","slug":"blockchain-project-featured-in-wake-forest-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lammuseum.wfu.edu\/2022\/07\/blockchain-project-featured-in-wake-forest-magazine\/","title":{"rendered":"Blockchain Project Featured in Wake Forest Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"has-old-gold-color has-text-color wp-block-heading\">News of the World<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Behold the humble Fijian dish bearing tidings from Polynesia, an explorer\u2019s ship, a \u2018Disneyland\u2019 museum circa mid-1700s and a Wake Forest bet on the future.<\/strong><br><em>BY\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/magazine.wfu.edu\/author\/hannercl\/\">CAROL L. HANNER<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the mid-1700s, an artist on an unknown island in Fiji intricately carves a piece of wood into a shallow dish, the shape inspired by a tropical leba fruit, or perhaps a bird. The bete, or priests, of Fiji have commissioned the bowl for mixing coconut oil, fruit and pigments into their favored body oils, colorful and perfumed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At 13 inches long, it is one of many wooden containers serving the powerful priests in the South Pacific archipelago. Using their larger, deeper wooden bowls, the bete concoct an earthy liquid of water and grated pepper plant roots. They drink this potion in sacred rituals to induce a trance state, inviting ancestral spirits to enter their bodies and channel visions and wisdom for the chiefs and their tribes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What if the bete could have envisioned the destiny of their humble shallow dish? 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