Iʻe kuku (tapa beater)

Object status:

Deaccessioned

Museum number:

11-2827

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Accession number:

Acc.1940AH

Description:

Tapa beater. Diamond design.

Donor:

Richard K. Beardsley

Collection place:

Hawaiian Islands

Verbatim coll. place:

Hawaii

Culture or time period:

Hawaiian

Collector:

Richard K. Beardsley

Collection date:

November 1940

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

Tapa beaters

Function:

1.6 Manufacturing, Constructing, Craft, and Professional Pursuits

Accession date:

December 16, 1940

Department:

Oceania

Dimensions:

width 1.375 inches and length 14.625 inches

Comment:

Description: "14 5/8" x 1 3/8", Quadrangular Round handle 1. I'E KUKU. Finishing beater. One side is called "mole halu'a" and has 5 very worn grooves. One side is grooved & has 6 ridges (nao); this surface is called "pepehi". One side has vestigal "nao," about 14 to the inch, with a superimposed "'upena pupu" design (metal cut)* [This side might be called "ho'opa'i" with "'upena pupu"; the "nao" are so worn that an exact tally is difficult.] One side has 8 "nao" with a slight "konane" design superimposed (metal cut). See p. 170; p. 171, Fig. 111-b; p. 173, Fig. 113-c; and p. 172, Fig. 112-a. The last side might be called "pepehi" with "konane". (fide Barbara (Kanani) Burns, September 27, 1983) Remarks: "1. Hiroa, Te Rangi (Peter Buck) "Arts and Crafts of Hawaii" pp. 169-179

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