Fan

Museum number:
2-4884
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21020004884
Alternate number:
69 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.14
Description:
Feather. Paddle shaped object of red, white, and blue beads sewn to buckskin over wood (?) core; exposed yellow buckskin panel on one side of paddle had concentric circle of red, white, and blue beads; eagle feathers at distal end have white down on one side, red-stained down on other. Heavy fringe of yellow-dyed buckskin at base of handle.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Great Plains, North America
Verbatim coll. place:
; Great Plains
Culture or time period:
Kiowa
Collector:
Hugh Lenox Scott
Collection date:
1901
Taxon:
Accipitridae
Object type:
ethnography
Context of use:
For peyote ceremony.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 98 centimeters
Comment:
Exhibited: UCLMA Plains Indians, 1971.
Loans:
S1952-1953 #3: California Palace of the Legion of Honor (September 9, 1952–November 28, 1952) and S1952-1953 #4: California Palace of the Legion of Honor (September 11, 1952–November 28, 1952)
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Fan, accession number 2-4884, described as Feather. Paddle shaped object of red, white, and blue beads sewn to buckskin over wood (?) core; exposed yellow buckskin panel on one side of paddle had concentric circle of red, white, and blue beads; eagle feathers at distal end have white down on one side, red-stained down on other. Heavy fringe of yellow-dyed buckskin at base of handle.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Fan, accession number 2-4884, described as Feather. Paddle shaped object of red, white, and blue beads sewn to buckskin over wood (?) core; exposed yellow buckskin panel on one side of paddle had concentric circle of red, white, and blue beads; eagle feathers at distal end have white down on one side, red-stained down on other. Heavy fringe of yellow-dyed buckskin at base of handle.

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