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Wooden four-sided kapa (barkcloth) beater, or i'e kuku, from Hawaii. Three sides have ribbed, parallel lines, each side's ribbing having a slightly different width. One side has a regular diamond and triangle design carved into the surface. Kapa, or Hawaiian barkcloth, comes in a variety of textures, colors and patterns. Texture and watermarked patterns are added to kapa during its production by beating the barkcloth with carved kapa beaters.
textile working equipment
tapa (bark cloth)
wood (plant material)
carving and carving techniques
Beater
6.00 (small paper label outlined in red with "6.00" and indepherable letters underneath the number)
Original to Phillips House (Salem, Mass.),
E47,128
FD228
Unknown
Pacific Island Group
1 5/8 x 1 1/2 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of the Stephen Phillips Memorial Charitable Trust for Historic Preservation
2006.44.957
Hawaii (United States)
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