Fan

Museum number:
2-5585
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21020005585
Alternate number:
3813 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.13 and Acc.88
Description:
Eagle feathers; handle encased in red/blue flannel; white beads in outline design; pendant of animal tail with beading and buckskin fringes.
Donor:
John Preston Stanley, Philip Mills Jones, and Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Great Plains, North America
Verbatim coll. place:
Great Plains
Culture or time period:
Blood
Collector:
Mrs. Freeman and Philip Mills Jones
Collection date:
1903
Taxon:
Accipitridae
Object type:
ethnography
Function:
5.0 Use not specified (Ritual, Pageantry, and Recreation)
Accession date:
1903 and August 1901
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 47 centimeters
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Fan, accession number 2-5585, described as Eagle feathers; handle encased in red/blue flannel; white beads in outline design; pendant of animal tail with beading and buckskin fringes.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Fan, accession number 2-5585, described as Eagle feathers; handle encased in red/blue flannel; white beads in outline design; pendant of animal tail with beading and buckskin fringes.

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