Tapa beater (English)

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-4mm apart. The vertical grooves along the length of the ike alter to horizontal lines near base (top of handle). One side is plain without grooves. Brown in colour.

1142 (ethnology)

Pacific