Record metadata:
Type | Cultural Object (2014 Definition) |
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Title | IIc 6583 |
Keywords | Coconut grater |
Description | This buffalo rib was used as a grater to grate coconut flesh. The top of the rib has been incised so that the 'teeth' perforate the coconut flesh. See the kitchen stool, IIc 6562 that would also have been used in performing this domestic task. |
Creator of Object | Presumed Makasae people |
Date Created | Pre August 1935 |
Place Created | Presumed Baguia Sub-district, Baucau District, Timor-Leste |
Object Type | Domestic object |
Dimensions | 25.8 cm long |
Use status in 2014 | Not used (as now commercially made metal graters or locally forged metal graters and available and used) |
Material | Bone, buffalo rib |
Technique | Hand carved |
Institution/Holder: object | Museum der Kulturen Basel |
Collector | Dr Alfred Bühler |
Date Collected | August 1935 |
Place Collected | Baguia Sub-district, Baucau District, Timor-Leste |
File Copyright | Museum der Kulturen Basel. Photograph taken by Joanna Barrkman, 2014 |
MKB/Buehler object title | Raspel, G kau ratte |
Production status in 2014 | Not made |
Timorese Language Term/s | Kau rate, M Koi nuu, T |
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