1961.6.63

Collection type

Object

Description

Circular fan of palm leaf with a natural 'concertina' texture held in an ivory handle. [LKG 04/09/2009]

Long description

Circular fan of palm leaf with a natural 'concertina' texture held in an ivory handle. The colour of the palm leaf is a golden yellow, with a slightly darker outer rim. The palm leaf has been stitched to a circular frame of plant material and the stitching is very neat and regular. The handle of the fan is of ivory which has been incised or turned to achieve a decorative pattern of three sets of parallel rings just below where the ivory joins the fan. At this join with the palm leaf the ivory has been shaped to allow the palm leaf to slide between two arms, fastened with two metal pins. The base part of the fan, where the natural folds of the leave converge, has been protected using a thin disk of metal, folded in half to cover both sides of the palm leaf. This folded plate has pushed with the palm leaf inserted, between the arms of the ivory handle. The handle has been shaped into raised bands just below its divide into two arms, and has narrowed and raised form along the main shaft. [LKG 04/09/2009]

Geographical reference

Sri Lanka

Asia > Southern Asia > Sri Lanka

Person

Field collector Unknown Collector

PRM source Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

PRM source Frank Norman Howes

Date / Period

Date made: 1874?, uncertain

Date collected

?1874

Acquisition information

Donated: 1961

Materials and processes

Material Palm Leaf Plant, Material Animal Ivory Tooth, Material Cane Plant, Material Metal, Process Carved, Process Split, Process Stitched, Process Riveted, Process Basketry, Process Nailed

Dimensions

Length 160 mm ivory total, Length 99 mm handle, Diameter 215 mm

Object numbers

Accession number: 1961.6.63

Search terms: Fan, Basketry