Barkcloth beater "ike" · Cook Islands, Rarotonga · ID: 3039339
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Provenance
Edward Blaine, High Comissioner of the Eastern Pacific Shipping around 1900Size
L: 36 cm
L: 14.2 inch
Description
heavy wood, brown patina, habile round handle, four-sided beating area covered with fine grooves, slightly dam., minor missing parts, traces of usage
The object Barkcloth beater “ike” with the object ID 3039339 was last part of the auction 81st Tribal Art Auction at October 31, 2015 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 106.
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Comparing literature
Kaeppler, Adrienne, Polynesia, Honolulu 2010, ill. 414 f.