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Object Number 99-12-70/53564
Display Title Fan
Descriptions
Object Description Large fan with colored embroidery
Inventory Description Fan, woven vegetable fiber, curving blade, wrapped with yarn and human hair
Classification
  • Fan
Department Ethnographic
Date before 1899
Culture
  • Hawaiian
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / United States / Hawaii
Dimensions Overall: 81.8 x 35.8 x 3.5 cm (32 3/16 x 14 1/8 x 1 3/8 in.)
Quantity 2
Label on object 53564
Credit Line Gift of the Heirs of David Kimball, 1899
Provenance
Provenance Boston Museum
Donor David P. Kimball
Donor Augusta K. Horton
Donor L. Cushing Kimball

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