Gourd Drum "Pa Ipu" Or "Hokeo"
date: label: Accession Date
content: 5 Dec 1903
name: label: Donor Name
content: Bishop Museum
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Composed of 2 gourds the upper one nearly spherical and having a circular 3-1/4 in. deep cut in its upper end. The lower gourd is pear shape, its neck cut off and inserted in the neck of the upper gourd and the two cemented together. Two 5/16 in. holes are bored in lower gourd about 1/2 in. apart near neck and a loop of white cotton cloth woven through for a handle. Drum is held by the loop with the left hand and beaten by the right hand. It has no skin head. Used in the Hula and as an accompaniment to dancing and singing." A.k.a. ipu pa'i or ipu hula.
label: Notes
content: Object was on display in National Museum of Natural History exhibit "Na Mea Makamae o Hawai'i - Hawaiian Treasures", 2004-2005. Identified by Dr. Adrienne Kaeppler as a gourd idiophone (ipu heke).
label: Record Last Modified
content: 13 Jul 2023
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: 041979
label: USNM Number
content: E222177-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Drum