Ike

Ike. Bark cloth beater. Used for pounding and producing sheets of masi (bark cloth). Carved from solid kau (wood). Long and square in cross section with a tapered handle. Four-sided, with three sides with grooves spaced approximately 2mm-3mm apart. There are four lines, zigzagged, incised horizontally across base (top of handle) of grooved sides. A sticker is stuck at the top end of the ike with "E.P Coll Fiji masi Stick" written in dark coloured ink across the sticker. Dark brown in colour.

Other Name

Tapa beater (English)

Place

Vanua Levu/Vanua Levu Group/Fiji

Accession Date

1924

Other Id

14785.2 (ethnology)

O60 (Edge-Partington)

Department

Pacific