Ike
human history
Ike. Bark cloth beater. Used for pounding and producing sheets of masi (bark cloth). Carved from solid kau (wood). Long and elliptical in cross section with a tapered handle. Both sides are incised. One side is with vertical grooves, approximately 2-4mm spaced apart. The opposite side is patterned with geometric/zigzag incisions with several vertical grooves spaced approximately 2-4mm apart. Brown in colour.
Accession number: 527459 Last Update: 20 Sept 2018
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Tapa beater (English)
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- Fiji
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1886
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11807 (ethnology)
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