Beater
- Museum number:
- 11-37689
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21110037689
- Accession number:
- Acc.1915
- Description:
- Beater, carved wood, for log slit gong; handle end is keeled and knobbed with two eye-like bulges.
- Donor:
- Ellsworth La Boyteaux and Mrs. Ellsworth La Boyteaux
- Collection place:
- April River Tributary, Upper Sepik River, Papua New Guinea
- Production place:
- Marutea Sud, Outer Gambier Group, Gambier Islands
- Culture or time period:
- Papuan
- Maker or artist:
- Sandor F. Bacsik
- Collector:
- Bruce D. Lawes
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Carvings (visual works) and Percussion beaters
- Function:
- 5.4 Secular and Religious Musical Instruments
- Production date:
- October 31, 1923
- Accession date:
- 1964
- Department:
- Oceania
- Dimensions:
- Overall— width 55 meters and Overall— length 5 inches
- Title:
- Bees Alive! (Artist's Label)
- Images:
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