Box lid

Museum number:

9-5822c

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Accession number:

Acc.2414 and Acc.374

Description:

large wooden fan box. Gumpai fan; etched metal with cut-out designs on butterflies and dragonflies; black lacquer handle; faded orange silk cord with tassel; length 50.5 cm; width 23.5 cm; a) fan; b) box base; c) lid

Donor:

Maurice K. Schiffman and Phoebe Apperson Hearst

Collection place:

Japan

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

Boxes (containers) and Dragons

Function:

1.7 Fighting, Warfare, and Social Control

Accession date:

1909 and 1968

Department:

Asia (except western Russia)

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