Fan

Museum number:
2-30807
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.1267
Description:
Wing of bird; handle covered with commercial leather; sinew sewn blue, yellow beads; cotton cloth below handle.
Donor:
Mrs. Robert H. Lowie
Collection place:
Great Plains, North America
Verbatim coll. place:
; Great Plains
Culture or time period:
Crow
Collector:
Robert Harry Lowie
Object type:
ethnography
Function:
5.0 Use not specified (Ritual, Pageantry, and Recreation)
Accession date:
1959
Context of use:
Possibly peyote fan, but unlikely; feathers not loose; handle not beaded with stitch used with peyote objects. (fide David Finster, 1968).
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 52 centimeters
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Fan, accession number 2-30807, described as Wing of bird; handle covered with commercial leather; sinew sewn blue, yellow beads; cotton cloth below handle.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Fan, accession number 2-30807, described as Wing of bird; handle covered with commercial leather; sinew sewn blue, yellow beads; cotton cloth below handle.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Fan, accession number 2-30807, described as Wing of bird; handle covered with commercial leather; sinew sewn blue, yellow beads; cotton cloth below handle.

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