Grater
date: label: Accession Date
content: 22 May 2013
label: Collection Date
content: 1972
name: label: Collector
content: Richard Feinberg
label: Donor Name
content: Richard Feinberg
notes: label: Notes
content: Long piece of wood, carved with one larger rounded end and one smaller flat end. Center has flat panel with several rows of small fish bone spikes protruding from the wood.
label: Notes
content: Paota used for tubers (taro & manioc). The large end is placed against stomach and the other against tree, then the tuber is scraped against the grater. Made by Martin Vakapea. Puko Pakatangi wood (Genus Heranandia), with spikes made from fish bone. The object was made asan example of how Anuta people used to do it in the past; in 1972, most people used metal scrapers. Both men and women used this object. Feinberg guessed that men would make these (men generally make all objects out of wood). Object that is found in every household, and were used frequently. Individuals would shred tubers over a big wooden bowl. On Anuta people still eat tubers predominately, not rice. (Per curator Joshua Bell; notes from speaking to Feinberg, Aug 16, 2012.)
label: Record Last Modified
content: 2 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Anuta Island, Solomon Islands, Melanesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Anutan
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2059846
label: USNM Number
content: E433243-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Grater
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 87.6 cm
label: Width
content: 9 cm
label: Diameter
content: 6.3 cm