- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Wooden pounder for beating flax fibre. It has a narrow handle which widens into an oval-sectioned head, rounded at the end. The handle slightly expands again at the butt. [JC [OPS Move] 29/3/2017]
- Cultural groups
- Māori
- Person
- Field collector Charles Smith
- PRM source The Executors of the Charles Smith Estate
- PRM source Alfred T. Collier
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1869?, uncertain
- Date collected
- 1860 - 1869?
- Acquisition information
- Purchased: 1923
- Materials and processes
- Material Wood Plant, Process Carved
- Dimensions
- Depth: max 45 mm, Width: max 77 mm, Length: max 250 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1923.87.185
1923.87.185
Wooden pounder for beating flax fibre. It has a narrow handle which widens into an oval-sectioned head, rounded at the end. The handle slightly expands again at the butt. [JC [OPS Move] 29/3/2017]
1923.87.185
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