Beater
This beater (’auta) was used to play the slit drum. Larger slit drums would require two beaters. Collected by Rev. John Marriott between 1878 and 1904.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 129/1972/5b
- Category
- Ethnography
- Collection Class
- Musical instruments
- Collection Area Region
- POLYN
- Material
- hard wood
- Common Name
- beater
- Simple Name
- beater
- Production Country
- Samoa, Independent State of
- Production Year Low
- 1878
- Production Year High
- 1904
