Fan

Museum number:
2-4883
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
68 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.14
Description:
Of feathers. Sharpened wood dowel covered with rawhide; green-dyed buckskin with beading in red/white/blue at base of eagle feathers. Heavily fringed. Multicolored ornaments in circular beading.
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 84 centimeters
Comment:
Photo: 15-4406. Exhibited: UCLMA, Plains Indians, 1971.
Loans:
S1964-1965 #79: Science Center (Diablo Valley College) (March 18, 1965–August 6, 1965) and S1965-1966 #16: California State University, East Bay/Clarence E. Smith (September 17, 1965–November 23, 1965)
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Fan, accession number 2-4883, described as Of feathers. Sharpened wood dowel covered with rawhide; green-dyed buckskin with beading in red/white/blue at base of eagle feathers. Heavily fringed. Multicolored ornaments in circular beading.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Fan, accession number 2-4883, described as Of feathers. Sharpened wood dowel covered with rawhide; green-dyed buckskin with beading in red/white/blue at base of eagle feathers. Heavily fringed. Multicolored ornaments in circular beading.

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