Iʻe kuku (tapa beater)
- Object status:
- Deaccessioned
- Museum number:
- 11-55
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21110000055
- Accession number:
- Acc.159
- Description:
- Cylindrical with quadrangular blade. Made of carved hardwood. With grooved sides. One side has 8 grooves, one side has 9 grooves with ridges rounded, one side has 16 grooves
- Donor:
- Alaska Ferry Museum and Older University Collections
- Collection place:
- Hawaiian Islands
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Hawaii
- Culture or time period:
- Hawaiian
- Collector:
- unknown
- Collection date:
- unknown
- Materials:
- Hardwood
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Tapa beaters
- Function:
- 1.6 Manufacturing, Constructing, Craft, and Professional Pursuits
- Accession date:
- 1904
- Context of use:
- Tapa beater used by women.
- Department:
- Oceania
- Dimensions:
- length 16.25 inches
- Comment:
- Native name: "I'E KUKU". 8 grooves (See p. 171, Fig. 111b): this is a "mole halua" design; 9 grooves: "nao" (see p. 171, Fig. 111c). This side, with 8 ridges, is a "pepehi" surface; 16 grooves: a "ho'opa'i" surface. One side has the "'upena pupu" design (really a variation on a and c, Fig. 113) (p. 173, Fig. 113c). 2. The "i'e kuku" is a finishing beater; it is used once the fabric has been spread and results in a "kapa" having a particular thickness, texture and, in post-European contact times, definite "watermarks" or designs in the fabric itself. The designs are caused by raised portions of a bas-relief beater biting into the "kapa" thus thinning it." (fide Barbara (Kanani) Burns, August 21, 1983). Made by: "Made by male specialists for use by women". "Males on all islands". Published: "Secondary entry: "Polynesia; Hawaii att. (A.L. Kaeppler, Bishop Museum. 1969)" (No original entry)." Ref.: "2. Brigham, "Ka Hana Kapa", p. 79. 1. Buck, Peter "Arts and Crafts of Hawaii", pp 169-179".
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