Iʻe kuku (tapa beater)

Object status:

Deaccessioned

Museum number:

11-1937

Permalink:

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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:

length 14.75 inches and width 1.75 inches

Comment:

Description: "14 3/4 in. x 1 3/4 in." "Round handle, quadrangular. 1. "i`e kuku" Finishing beater. One side is a "halua" surface with 8 "`auwaha" or grooves, rather shallow. Two sides have 9 "nao" or ridges each. The final side has 11 "nao". Made by male specialists for use by women. (See 1., pp. 170-172; Fig. 111-c.)" (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), and S1978-1979 #39: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/Colleen Beck (January 17, 1979–March 31, 1979)

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