- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Palm leaf fan with wooden handle.
- Date / Period
- Date made: Possibly before 1873
- Date collected
- ?1873
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1921
- Materials and processes
- Material Wood Plant, Material Palm Leaf Plant, Process Plaited, Process Carved, Process Basketry
- Dimensions
- Length: max 440 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1921.93.379
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