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Tapa tapper

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The beaters are used to soften strips of watered bark bast on an anvil made of wood or stone. The strips are then joined in several processing steps to form large pieces of cloth. Text: Ulrich Menter

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Cataloguing data

Object type
Tapa tapper
Dimensions
Length: 32.2 cm
Width: 3 cm
Height: 3 cm
Material/Technique
Wood
carved
Current location
Linden-Museum Stuttgart
Inventory number
117336

Provenance and sources

  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Museum of Ethnology; 2029
  • Production
    when
    19th century
  • Change of physical control or legal title
    where
    Hawaii
Provenance
This tapa beater with the old inv. no. VI 8740 traces back to the collection of the Ethnological Museum Berlin. The physician Eduard Arning acquired it during his stay in the Kingdom of Hawai'i in the years 1883-1886. It came to the Linden-Museum through an exchange of objects with Arthur Speyer in 1939. Text: Ulrich Menter

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CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED

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