| Description |
Kapa beater carved from single piece of dense wood; Proximal end of beater comprises a cylindrical hand that gradually expands toward midsection, where it changes to a square shape in cross-section; Each of the four sides on the distal half of the beater has been carved with a series of straight parallel lines, varying in number, size, depth, and spacing between adjacent lines; Two of the faces have deep but widely spaced carved lines; A third face has shallow but widely spaced carved lines, and the fourth face has deep but closely spaced carved lines; When bark is processed for kapa, it is first beaten with the face bearing the widely spaced lines in order to initially break down the fibers, causing the bark sheet to spread out as much as possible. |
