Physical Object An inanimate, three-dimensional object or substance. Note that digital representations of, or surrogates for, these objects should use Moving Image, Still Image, Text or one of the other types. Prim Media Primary media for this item. 479 DescriptionEN English Description The Cassava grater was part of the preparation process for Cassava by Amerindian communities. Jerome Handler, in his article “Aspects of Amerindian Ethnography in 17th Century Barbados” stated that: “ in processing the cassava, traditional Amerindian techniques generally involved first the scraping off of the skin and then the grating of the root with a grater made of thorny branches, coral, or wood and stone splinters set in a board. In squeezing the juice out of the grated cassava, a cylindrical basketry strainer or press (commonly known as a matapi or tipiti in the ethnographic literature) was employed.” (63) This particular grater also has a motif of a lizard. Animals such as lizards, frogs or turtles were frequent in Taíno art. Source: “Aspects of Amerindian Ethnography in 17th Century Barbados”. Author: Jerome S. Handler. Caribbean Studies, Vol. 9, No. 4 (Jan., 1970), pp. 50-72. Digitized by Toni-Q Harris during the 2018 BMHS 3D Photogrammetry Summer Intensive Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource The Cassava grater was part of the preparation process for Cassava by Amerindian communities. Jerome Handler, in his article “Aspects of Amerindian Ethnography in 17th Century Barbados” stated that: “ in processing the cassava, traditional Amerindian techniques generally involved first the scraping off of the skin and then the grating of the root with a grater made of thorny branches, coral, or wood and stone splinters set in a board. In squeezing the juice out of the grated cassava, a cylindrical basketry strainer or press (commonly known as a matapi or tipiti in the ethnographic literature) was employed.” (63) This particular grater also has a motif of a lizard. Animals such as lizards, frogs or turtles were frequent in Taíno art. Source: “Aspects of Amerindian Ethnography in 17th Century Barbados”. Author: Jerome S. Handler. Caribbean Studies, Vol. 9, No. 4 (Jan., 1970), pp. 50-72. Digitized by Toni-Q Harris during the 2018 BMHS 3D Photogrammetry Summer Intensive Title A name given to the resource Amerindian Cassava Grater Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 6055 Type The nature or genre of the resource Physical Object Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. current,13.084317,-59.600278; Subject The topic of the resource CULTURAL HERITAGE Europeana Specific elements of the Europeana Semantic Elements. Europeana Type The Europeana material type of the resource. TEXT Europeana Data Provider The name or identifier of the organisation that contributes data to Europeana. Barbados Museum and Historical Society