Gong Beater Item Number: 1170/21 from the MOA: University of British Columbia

Description

Beater with a wooden shaft and head of tightly coiled, twined, red cord. Shaft has four rounded waves at its end, each with an incised band around at crest. The handle than tapers toward head before flaring to a flat area with three incised lines right below the head. Top of head and handle end are both rounded. Head is slightly bulbous.