Fuelle
date: label: Date made
content: mid 20th century
notes: label: Description
content: A bellows is a device for pumping air to get a fire started and to make it hotter. This handmade bellows was collected from the Joyería Bairan, a jeweler's shop on Calle Fortaleza in San Juan. This jewelry store produced many silver <i>ex-votos</i>, probably using this bellows in the process.
label: Description (Spanish)
content: El fuelle es un artefacto que se utiliza para soplar aire a fin de encender y avivar el fuego. Este fuelle hecho a mano proviene de la Joyería Bairan, una tienda de joyas de la Calle Fortaleza en
label: Description (Spanish)
content: San Juan. En esta joyería se han creado muchos milagros de plata, para cuyo proceso de elaboración probablemente se utilizó este fuelle.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Place Made
content: Puerto Rico
title: label: Title
content: Bellows
topic: label: Subject
content: Daily Life
label: Subject
content: Jewelry
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content: Home and Community Life: Ethnic
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content: Cultures & Communities
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content: Work
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content: Vidal
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Teodoro Vidal
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1997.0097.0517
label: catalog number
content: 1997.0097.0517
label: accession number
content: 1997.0097
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Bellows
label: Object Name
content: bellows
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal; wood; twine; rubber; vinyl (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: twine (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: rubber (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 19 cm x 22.5 cm x 30.5 cm; 7 1/2 in x 8 7/8 in x 12 in