Tapa beater
- Museum number:
- 11-39523
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21110039523
- Description:
- Tapa beater, smooth. Used with anvil to beat out bast of bast of paper mulberry (broussonetia papyrifera) in tapa processing.
- Collection place:
- Samoa
- Culture or time period:
- Samoan
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Tapa beaters
- Function:
- 1.6 Manufacturing, Constructing, Craft, and Professional Pursuits
- Department:
- Oceania
- Loans:
- S1975-1976 #72: University Art Museum (UC Berkeley) (April 19, 1976–September 14, 1976)
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