beater
- Museum number
- Oc,LMS.189
- Description
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Beater of heavy brown wood, the head having irregular furrows. Handle oval in section.
- Dimensions
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Height: 40 centimetres
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Width: 3 centimetres
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Depth: 3 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Registration slip annotated 'Not Samoan' Von H[ugel]'
Professor Steven Hooper agrees (2019) that it is not Samoan in style, and doubts it is a beater specifically for beating barkcloth, as had been attributed in Q registration.
Stuck-on handwritten label with printed blue border, typical of those on LMS artefacts
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1911
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc,LMS.189
- Additional IDs
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CDMS number: Oc1911C27.189 (old CDMS no.)
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Miscellaneous number: Oc1890,Loan (originally loaned to BM in 1890 by LMS)
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Miscellaneous number: Oc1980Q1.1217