Fan
date: label: Accession Date
content: 27 Mar 1968
label: Collection Date
content: March 27, 1968
name: label: Collector
content: David D. Thomas
label: Donor Name
content: David D. Thomas
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "BANDS OF BRAID SEWN INTO OVAL FAN AND FASTENED TO HANDLE, WHICH IN TURN IS COVERED WITH BRAIDING. FACE OF FAN COVERED WITH ARTIFICAL FLOWERS AND FOLIAGE MADE OF PALM FROND OR PANDANUS BARK MATERIAL, ALL NOW MUCH DELAPIDATED. TWO ORNAMENTS ARE WITH THIS WHICH APPEAR TO HAVE ONCE BEEN ATTACHED; EACH MADE UP OF 2 LOOPS OF FINE BRAID OF DIFFERING PATTERNS, ONE WITH DANGLERS OF SMALL, CLEAR GLASS STRUNG WITH SMALL ITEMS CUT AND/ OR TIED FROM PALM FROND, AND WITH 1 LARGE, CLEAR, CUT-GLASS BEAD. FAN IS IN POOR STATE OF PRESERVATION."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 2 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Society Islands, France, Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Polynesian
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 277609
label: USNM Number
content: E409692-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Fan
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 40 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 20 cm