Te Kohinga Taoka Māori
Collection Record
Beater, Paoi
Complete wooden patu aruhe (beater used to prepare fern root). Very worn. Blade is long and narrow with an oval cross-section with parallel sides, tapering to a rounded, but chipped distal end. The neck is narrow with no distinct shoulder, ending with a knob on the proximal end. There are several knots in the wood on blade on bottom side.
Provenance Place:
Greenstone Island, Temuka, Timaru District, Canterbury, New Zealand
D27.751
Details
- Provenance Place
- Greenstone Island, Temuka, Timaru District, Canterbury, New Zealand
- Cultural Group
- Kāi Tahu, Māori, Polynesian, Pacific
- Measurements
- 385 x 52 x 26mm
- Credit Line
- Murdoch Collection, James W Murdoch
- Rights
- All rights reserved
- Department
- Taoka Maori
- Accession Number
- D27.751
- On Display
- No
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