Tapa beater; wood; square; round handle; 2 narrow line incised sides; 2 inches wide, 16-5/8 inches long.
Donor:
Harald Heyner (Laskemoen) and University Appropriation
Collection place:
Rarotonga Island, Southern Cook Islands, Cook Islands
Culture or time period:
Polynesian
Collector:
Harald Heyner (Laskemoen)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Tapa beaters
Function:
1.6 Manufacturing, Constructing, Craft, and Professional Pursuits
Accession date:
1963
Department:
Oceania
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), S1968-1969 #106: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/Glynn Llywelyn Isaac (April 14, 1969–May 7, 1969), S1976-1977 #38: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley) (January 13, 1977–May 23, 1977), and S1978-1979 #39: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/Colleen Beck (January 17, 1979–March 31, 1979)