1.6 Manufacturing, Constructing, Craft, and Professional Pursuits
Accession date:
December 15, 1901
Context of use:
Tapa beater.
Department:
Oceania
Dimensions:
length 14.75 inches
Comment:
Description: "Quadrangular cross section. Hard, dk. brown wood with a rectangular beating surface of 1 7/8" x 8" per inch beating surface. Overall length is 14 3/8". The handle is shaped to slope from the shoulder to a blunt point. This is an Hawaiian "i'e kuku ho'oki" a finishing beater for making "kapa" (bark cloth). Made by men." (fide Barbara (Kanani) Burns) Remarks: "This has one highly unusual beating surface (see Brigham), two unskillfully executed surfaces carved in the 'upena halu'a pattern (See Hiroa, Te Rangi (Peter Buck), "Arts and Crafts of Hawaii" (1957: fig. 174 a & b), and one surface which I cannot explain. See Kooijman, Simon, "Tapa in Polynesia" (1972) 108, Fig. 64; 110, Fig. 67. Brigham, "Ka Hana Kapa" (1911) 87, Fig. 43, #7 (BPBM 9996)
Loans:
S1971-1972 #4: Department of Anthropology (Stanford Univ.)/Robert L. Hoover (July 12, 1971–July 26, 1971), S1974-1975 #39: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/John Desmond Clark (December 7, 1974–December 16, 1974), S1979-1980 #71: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/John Desmond Clark (June 12, 1980–June 16, 1980), and S1994-1995 #10: SFO Museum (April 7, 1995–July 26, 1995)