Iʻe kuku (tapa beater)

Object status:

Deaccessioned

Museum number:

11-1933

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Accession number:

Acc.587

Description:

Tapa beater.

Donor:

Mrs. Jackson R. Myers

Collection place:

Maui, Hawaiian Windward Islands, Hawaiian Islands

Verbatim coll. place:

Hawaii; Maui; Maui

Culture or time period:

Hawaiian

Collector:

Jackson R. Myers

Collection date:

1900-1905

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

Tapa beaters

Function:

1.6 Manufacturing, Constructing, Craft, and Professional Pursuits

Accession date:

1922

Context of use:

Tapa beater.

Department:

Oceania

Dimensions:

length 15.375 inches and width 1.625 inches

Comment:

Description: "15 3/8" x 1 5/8" Quadrangular section; round handle (handle shaped to taper from shoulders to a blunt point). Hardwood. 1. I'E KUKU, a finishing beater. Grooves on three sides are 1) 9, 2) 11, 3) 13; these sides are called "pepehi". One side has 15 grooves; this side is "ho'opa'i". See p. 172 and p. 171, Fig. 111c and d. Beaters made by male specialists and used by women." (Fide Barbara (Kanani) Burns, August 11, 1983) Remarks: "1. Hiroa, Te Rangi (Peter Buck) "Arts and Crafts of Hawaii" pp. 169-179; for above see p. 172. 2. Brigham, W.T., "Ka Hana Kapa", pp. 79-84.

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