Fan
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1858
label: Collection Date
content: 1838 to 1842
name: label: Collector
content: United States Exploring Expedition
label: Donor Name
content: United States Exploring Expedition
notes: label: Notes
content: "IIRI," FAN WOVEN OF COCONUT LEAF. THE BODY OF THE FAN IS COMPOSED OF SIMPLE TWILL WORK PLAITING, WITH A TRIANGLE OF WICKERWORK AT THE APEX. THE HANDLE IS WRAPPED WITH A DARK BROWN PANDANUS AND BRAIDED COCONUT FIBER CORD IN A CHECKERBOARD PATTERN. MARKS> "VITI [possibly Viti Levu?] FIJI ISLANDS, JUNE, 1840, BOX 21". EXAMINED BY KENNETH P. EMORY, BISHOP MUSEUM, JUNE 1941. EXHIBITED MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, 1985-86.
label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "HANDLE WRAPPED WITH PANDANUS LEAF AND HUMAN HAIR CORD. (THIS INFORMATION GIVEN BY K.P. EMORY, BISHOP MUSEUM, 6/24/41)."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Fiji, Melanesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Fijian
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E3236-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Fan
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 41.9 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 26.6 cm