Bark Cloth Beater
2003-32-78
From: New Caledonia
Curatorial Section: Oceanian
| Object Number | 2003-32-78 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | New Caledonia |
| Section | Oceanian |
| Materials | Wood |
| Description | Atypical bark cloth beater (?). Grooving in grid pattern, but long and thin, with rounded finial at grip end. Exhibited at l'Exposition universelle de Paris 1900. According to sticker, "Caledonie 14656/Battoir pour pire les tapas [Beater for bark cloth]." |
| Height | 5 cm |
| Length | 45.2 cm |
| Width | 5.7 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003 |
| Other Number | 1995.X.16110 - Other Number | 14656 - Other Number |
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