Gong Beater Item Number: 1170/27 from the MOA: University of British Columbia

Description

Beater consisting of a dark wooden shaft and a red, cloth head. Shaft has a small knob at the head end and then two grooves around it below the head. It then tapers to a band of floral decoration with six bands of raised rectangles followed by another thin groove and another knob with a hole through it at the handle end. A dark ribbon is through the hole in the handle knob. The head has lightly felted red cloth with visible white edges wrapped around is several times.