Coconut shell water bottles from the Torres Strait

The Torres Strait Islanders have been making water bottles from coconut shells for a long time and today you can buy water bottles with filters made from coconut shells.

Mussora (coconut-shell water bottles)
Meriam people 
collected on Mer (Murray Island) by Tom Roberts in 1892.

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Coconut shell water bottles collected from the Torres Strait Islands in 1892

To see a coconut-shell water bottle in the British Museum, click here.