Skip to main content
Bark beater
Bark beater

Bark beater

Artist
MediumStone
ClassificationsTools and Equipment
Credit LineGift of Henry Schnakenberg
Object number1954.22.103
DescriptionQuadrangular stone with circumferential groove on three sides. There are 13 incised grooves on the bottom; may have been used to prepare paper from bark, known as amate (from maguey plant).
On View
Not on view
Collections
Bark beater
Pre-Columbian
Stone tool
MELANESIA/PAPUA
Stone tool
MELANESIA/PAPUA
Stone figurine
Pre-Columbian
900-600 BC
Stone tool
MELANESIA/PAPUA
Core
Pre-Columbian
950-1200
Palma
Pre-Columbian
600 - 900 CE
Figure
Pre-Columbian
900-600 BCE
Model totem pole
Northwest Coast
late 19th century
Head
Pre-Columbian
400-640 A.D.
Figure
Pre-Columbian