Tapa beater | Photographer: Larissa Arlt, JGU Mainz
Attribution 4.0 InternationalTapa beater | Photographer: Larissa Arlt, JGU Mainz
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Tapa beater
A tapa beater is used to beat bark bast, which has been dried, stored and then moistened again, on a wooden base in order to enlarge it tenfold; widespread throughout Oceania; "cloth straight from the tree", at the end of the handle is a bird's head with a curved beak
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Sammlungen der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
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Object type
Stampfer
Dimensions
L 26.5 cm
Material/Technique
wood (plant material)
carved
carved
Object genre
tool
Current location
Sammlungen der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Inventory number
JGU ES 2148
Other number(s)
Linden-Museum: 40179
2148
2148
Provenance and sources
when
before 1961
where
Papua-Neuguinea
when
before 1961
where
Papua-Neuguinea
who
Markert, Günter - Owners
when
15.12.1971
where
Stuttgart
Description
Came to Mainz "together with 636 other objects in exchange for 732 objects from Pakistan and Afghanistan" (Brandstetter, Hierholzer 2018).
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