Iʻe kuku (tapa beater)

Object status:

Deaccessioned

Museum number:

11-1935

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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:

width 1.625 inches and length 14.75 inches

Comment:

Description: "14 3/4" x 1 5/8". Round handle. Quadrangular. 1. I'E KUKU. Finishing beater. One side has 6 "nao" or "ridges"; one side has 9 "nao"; one side has 8 grooves on a flatter surface and may be a "mole" surface while the first two are "pepehi" surfaces. The final side has 4 grooves on a "mole" surface with a "konane" design in the central portion only. See Fig. 111 b&c and Fig. 112 a. Beaters made by male specialists for use by women." (Fide Barbara (Kanani) Burns, September 27, 1983) Remarks: "1. Hiroa, Te Rangi (Peter Buck) "Arts and Crafts of Hawaii" pp. 169-179.

Loans:

S1964-1965 #59: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/George A. Pettitt (February 26, 1965–February 26, 1965), S1967-1968 #8: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/Betty Holtzman (July 24, 1967–September 1, 1967), S1976-1977 #38: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley) (January 13, 1977–May 23, 1977), S1978-1979 #39: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/Colleen Beck (January 17, 1979–March 31, 1979), and S1994-1995 #10: SFO Museum (April 7, 1995–July 26, 1995)

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