Fan
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1858
label: Collection Date
content: 1838 to 1842
name: label: Collector
content: George W. Hammersly
label: Donor Name
content: United States Exploring Expedition
notes: label: Notes
content: FAN MADE OF WOVEN COCONUT LEAF FIBERS. THE HANDLE APPEARS TO BE RIBS OF THE COCONUT LEAF TIED INTO A BUNDLE BY MEANS OF TWISTED COCONUT FIBER CORD; THE CORD ALSO ATTACHES THE HANDLE TO THE BODY OF THE FAN. HAS ORIGINAL PEALE TAG REMNANT. OLD CATALOGUE CARD NOTES THAT THIS OBJECT ONCE HAD A TAG WHICH READ, "3816 SANDWICH ISLES, A. [SIC] HAMMERSLY". EXAMINED AND IDENTIFIED BY KENNETH P. EMORY, BISHOP MUSEUM, JUNE 1941. EXHIBITED MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, 1985-86.
label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "COCONUT LEAF, WRAPPED WITH SENNIT. "3816 SANDWICH ISLES A. HEMMERSLEY" ON TAG STUCK ON. ORIG. CAT.: "926-928 FANS MADE OF COCOA-PALM LEAVES BY THE NATIVES OF TONGATABU". (THIS INFORMATION GIVEN BY K. P. EMORY, BISHOP MUSEUM, 6/24/41)."
label: Notes
content: Illustrated Fig. 17.2b, p. 262 and discussed p. 262 in Kaeppler, Adrienne L. 2019. "A Kato Mosi Kaka and other Treasures from Tonga from the US Exploring Expedition." In Collecting and Provenance: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach. Milosch, Jane and Pearce, Nick, editors. 257–268. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield. Identified as i fan.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 16 Sep 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Tongatapu Group, Tonga, Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Tongan
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E3516-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Fan
physicalDescription: label: Length - Handle
content: 31 cm
label: Width - Handle
content: 34 cm
label: Height - Fan
content: 31 cm