Hand fan

Maker Inconnu / Unknown

SignatureUnmarked

InscriptionsOn box, printed on label : FORWARDED BY THE / AMERICAN EXPRESS COMP'NY / LIVINGSTON, FARGO & CO. / PROPRIETORS. / From Susp. Bridge, N.Y.; The Receipt Given FOR THIS [...] / HAS BEEN STAMPED / [...]; on another label, handwritten : Miss Fannie Prather / Care of / Capt Prather / Steamer Magnolia / Cincinnati Ohio

Date About 1850

Medium / Technique Ostrich feather, birch bark, porcupine quill ? moose hair ?, dye, metal, iron, silver salts and carboard
Cut, assembled, dyed, embroidered and wet collodion process

DimensionsFan: 42 × 7 × 54 cm (width x depth x length) Box: 7.5 × 44 × 59 cm (height x width x length)

ClassificationPersonal Objects - Personal Gear - Personal Assistive Objects

CultureIndigenous: Huron-Wendat?

Geocultural Area Eastern Woodlands

Object NumberM2020.94.1.1-2

DivisionIndigenous Cultures - Historical Objects

CollectionMcCord

CreditGift of Hon. Serge Royal

Status

Not on view

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