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I'e

human history
  • Other Name

    Bark cloth beater (English)

  • Description

    I'e. Bark cloth beater. Used for pounding and producing sheets of tapa. Carved from solid ra'au (wood). Long and square in cross section with the handle round in cross section. The handle also slightly tapers and flares out at the butt-end. Four grooved sides, with one side of the i'e consisting of grooves that are approximately spaced .

    5mm to 1mm apart, with another side with grooves approximately spaced 2mm to 3mm apart, and with two of the sides approximately spaced 1mm to 1.5mm apart. There are soft grooves carved across the handle. A cross shape is incised across the top end. Scratches and indentations are across the butt-end. There is also a circular incision across the handle with a hole drilled in the centre of it. Chipping along edge. Mid-brown in colour.

  • Place
  • Accession Number
    1932.439
  • Accession Date
    03 Aug 1932
  • Other Id

    18447.3 (ethnology)

  • Department
beater, 1932.439, 18447.3, Photographed by Andrew Hales,… … Read more

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