Tapa beater
date: label: Accession Date
content: 8 Apr 2005
name: label: Donor Name
content: Elsie S. Kawaonaheleopai'i Durante
notes: label: Notes
content: Tapa beater, second stage style (I'e kuku), with four flat surfaces each with different geometric pattern: 1-large cris-cross hatch marks with large dots called 'upena pupu; 2-small cris-cross hatch marks 'upena pupu; 3-wide parallel striations (pepehi); and 4-transverse lines forming forming large check pattern (konane). Cracks and piece missing on side 2 at base of handle. Blue ink inside area of broken piece and on end of handle. Appeared in "Hawaiian Treasures" exhibition at the National Museum of Natural History, September 2004 to March 2005.
label: Notes
content: Object was on display in National Museum of Natural History exhibit "Na Mea Makamae o Hawai'i - Hawaiian Treasures", 2004-2005.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 12 Mar 2018
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Hawaii (Hawaiʻi), United States, Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Hawaiian (Kanaka ʻŌiwi, Kanaka Maoli)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2033777
label: USNM Number
content: E430801-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Barkcloth Beater
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 34 cm
label: Maximum Width - Object
content: 4 cm