Iʻe kuku (tapa beater)

Object status:

Deaccessioned

Museum number:

11-1944

Permalink:

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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 13.875 inches and width 1.75 inches

Comment:

Description: "13 7/8 in. x 1 3/4 in." "Round, hardwood." "1. "Hohoa (hoahoa)" grooves in 4 longitudinal sections vary from 7 to 9, and 2 sections of 19. (A "section" is a rounded off, flatish surface. This "hohoa" is cracked in one section and the "nao" are worn making a tally difficult; the "nao" are ridges formed by grooves.) First stage beater for pounding fiber (bast) into sheets of desired dimensions. Beaters made by male specialists for women. (See p. 170)" Remarks: "1. Hiroa, Te Rangi (Peter Buck), "Arts and Crafts of Hawaii", pp. 169-179." (fide Barbara (Kanani) Burns, August 11, 1983)

Loans:

S1967-1968 #66: Design Department (UC Berkeley)/Joanne Segal Brandford (December 5, 1967–December 7, 1967)

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