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Object Number 16-48-20/C7475
Display Title Fire fan
Descriptions
Inventory Description Fan, brown wing feathers bound at quill with cane
Classification
  • Tools
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Guaymí
  • Chilchan
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Central America / Panama
Additional Geographic Terms Talamanca
Materials Feather, Cane
Dimensions Overall: 35 x 31 x 1 cm (13 3/4 x 12 3/16 x 3/8 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object C7475

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