beater;
pounder
- Museum number
- Oc1954,06.351
- Description
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Beater, pounder made of stone.
- Dimensions
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Height: 18 centimetres
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Width: 9 centimetres
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Depth: 7.50 centimetres
- Curator's comments
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Stuck-on handwritten label, ink:
FAATAOI / ISLE OF MOOREA / TAHITI / SOCIETY / ISLANDS.
Marked in white ink: 46918
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Stuck-on handwritten label; ‘Found in the ground while digging a hole to plant a banana plant in 1925 in the valley at FAA TAOI from Isle of Moorea by TAPIA’. Comment from Tara Hiquily, curator, Musée de Tahiti et ses Îles, during a visit to the museum storehouse, 20 June 2008: ‘Tapia’ is probably a person’s name.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1954
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc1954,06.351
- Additional IDs
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Previous owner/ex-collection number: 46918 (Wellcome Historical Medical Museum)
