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Object Number 80-24-70/23088
Display Title I‘e kuku (wooden kapa beater)
Descriptions
Indigenous Term I‘e kuku
Inventory Description Beater, carved wood, rectangular head, carved linear and zigzag designs
Classification
  • Beater
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Hawaiian
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / United States / Hawaii
Materials Wood
Dimensions Overall: 41.8 × 4.4 × 4.4 cm (16 7/16 × 1 3/4 × 1 3/4 in.) Storage: 48.8951 × 12.065 × 4.445 cm (19 1/4 × 4 3/4 × 1 3/4 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 23.088
Provenance
Collector John Lowell, Jr. (1836)
Donor Boston Society of Natural History (1880)

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