Object Details
- Donor Name
- Bishop Museum
- From card: "Composed of 2 gourds the upper one nearly spherical and having a circular 3-1/4 in. deep cut in its upper end. The lower gourd is pear shape, its neck cut off and inserted in the neck of the upper gourd and the two cemented together. Two 5/16 in. holes are bored in lower gourd about 1/2 in. apart near neck and a loop of white cotton cloth woven through for a handle. Drum is held by the loop with the left hand and beaten by the right hand. It has no skin head. Used in the Hula and as an accompaniment to dancing and singing." A.k.a. ipu pa'i or ipu hula.
- Object was on display in National Museum of Natural History exhibit "Na Mea Makamae o Hawai'i - Hawaiian Treasures", 2004-2005. Identified by Dr. Adrienne Kaeppler as a gourd idiophone (ipu heke).
- Record Last Modified
- 13 Jul 2023
- Specimen Count
- 1
- Culture
- Hawaiian (Kanaka ʻŌiwi, Kanaka Maoli)
- Accession Date
- 5 Dec 1903
- Accession Number
- 041979
- USNM Number
- E222177-0
- Object Type
- Drum
- Place
- Hawaii (Hawaiʻi), United States, Polynesia
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- Anthropology
- NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
- Topic
- Ethnology
- Record ID
- nmnhanthropology_8365064
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/39270953d-47f2-4ea5-82f7-d71751648952
