Mourning Fan
date: label: Date made
content: late 19th-early 20th century
notes: label: Description
content: This collapsible woman's fan, made from wood and cloth, is painted black to show that the user was in mourning. In the 1800s, regardless of class, most people with families died at home, not in hospitals. There, the deceased would be laid out in a room for friends and relatives to view the body and pay their respects. Family and friends then carried the coffin to the church and to burial.
label: Description (Spanish)
content: Este abanico plegable de mujer, hecho de madera y género, está pintado de negro para indicar que quien lo usa está de luto. A lo largo del siglo XIX, sin excepción de clase social, la mayoría de la gente con familia moría en la casa, no en el hospital. Se los acostaba en una sala donde los amigos y familiares podían ver el cuerpo y presentar sus respetos. Luego la familia y los amigos llevaban el ataúd hasta la iglesia y el lugar del entierro.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Place Made
content: Puerto Rico
title: label: Title (Spanish)
content: Abanico de Luto
topic: label: Subject
content: Daily Life
label: Subject
content: Death
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content: Home and Community Life: Ethnic
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content: Cultures & Communities
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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: 1997.0097.1037
label: accession number
content: 1997.0097
label: catalog number
content: 1997.0097.1037
objectType: label: Object Name
content: fan, mourning
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paint (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: cotton (overall material)