Reed fire fan with divided handle.

Collection type: Object
Description: Reed fire fan with divided handle.
Long description: Reed fire fan with divided handle. The fan is roughly square with a zig-zagging woven pattern. At the base of the fan, just above the handle there is a band of twisted reed. Beneath this band the reed used to make the fan has been gathered into two sections, each is bound with a spiraled piece of reed and the two sections are bound together at the base where the reed is knotted. [LKG 27/08/2009]
Geographical reference: Mexico
Latin America and the Caribbean > Central America > Mexico; Toluca area
Cultural groups: Otomí
Person: Field collector Beatrice Mary Blackwood; PRM source Beatrice Mary Blackwood
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1939
Date collected: 1939
Acquisition information: Donated: 1939
Materials and processes: Material Plant Fibre, Material Reed Plant, Process Twill Plaited, Process Basketry, Process Twisted, Process Knotted
Dimensions: Width 180 mm, Length 322 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1938.36.1821 Other numbers: Blackwood ii 1754
Associated publications: Illustrated in black and white as figure 114 on page 98 of Basketmakers Meaning and Form in Native American Baskets, edited by Linda Mowat, Howard Morphy and Penny Dransart (Oxford: Pitt Rivers Museum, University if Oxford, Mongraph 5, 1992). Caption reads: ‘Mexico, Toluca area, Otomi. Twill plaited fire fan of tule reed. L: 320 mm; W: 180 mm. Collected by Beatrice Blackwood, 1939. 1938.36.1821’ [MJD 18/01/2013]

Search terms: Fan, Fire, Basketry, Fire Accessory

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