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1884.65.37

Carved brown wood fan handle, 4 figures in relief

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1884.65.37

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Collection type
Object
Description
Carved brown wood fan handle, 4 figures in relief
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1874
Date collected
By 1874
Acquisition information
Donated: 1884
Materials and processes
Material Wood Plant, Process Carved
Dimensions
Length: max 386 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1884.65.37 PR Cat other PR nos: 2098
Research and responses

In Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum Pitt Rivers ms collections there is a handwritten list [P141] headed 'A catalogue of M.General [sic - Major General] Pitt Rivers' Anthropological Collection Objects illustrating Animal Form conventionalised in Ornamentation from different countries' which seems to be a list of all items which were associated with the display entitled 'Illustrations of Human and Animal form Cases 92 - 93' in Bethnal Green and South Kensington Museums. A photocopy of this list is held by Alison Petch [AP 23/03/2005]

For an authoritative account of fans from the Marquesas, see 'Fans (tahi'i)', by C[arol] S I[vory], in Adorning the World: Art of the Marquesas Islands, by Eric Kjellgren with Carol J. Ivory (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art / New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2005), pp. 81-4. [JC 23 2 2006]

Associated publications
Illustrated in a line drawing as Abbildungen 112 on page 135 of Plastik mit einer Einleitung über die 'Materielle Kultur' und einem Anhang 'Ethnographische Ergänzungen', Volume 2 of Die Marquesaner und ihre Kunst: Studien über die Entwicklung Primitiver Südseeornamentik nack Eigenen Reiseeergebnissen und dem Material der Museen, by Karl von den Steinen (Berlin: Dietrich Reimer (Ernst Vohsen), 1928). Also discussed on the same page. The same image is reproduced in Plate BetaO14 in Die Sammlungen, Volume 3 of Die Marquesaner und ihre Kunst: Studien über die Entwicklung Primitiver Südseeornamentik nack Eigenen Reiseeergebnissen und dem Material der Museen, by Karl von den Steinen (Berlin: Verlag von Dietrich Reimer / Ernst Vohsen, 1928). In the latter case the source is given as 'Edge-Parrtington II 25'.[JC 26 3 2015]

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