- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Fan of woven palm leaf with sennit bound handle. The top edge of the fan has a short fringe of brown ?wool. [LKG 01/10/2009]
- Long description
- Fan of woven palm leaf with sennit bound handle. The top edge of the fan has a short fringe of brown ?wool. In areas much of this wool has been lost, leaving the fringe with a sparse appearance. The sennit cord used to bind the handle has been finely plaited and has been tied off onto one of the bottom strips off palm. The top edge of the fan is made of a broad point, with curving bottom sides. There is a distinct raised area at the centre of the fan where the handle has been held into position by being woven over. [LKG 01/10/2009]
- Geographical reference
- Person
- Field collector Henry Nottidge Moseley
- Field collector HMS Challenger
- PRM source Amabel Nevill Sollas
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 11/08/1874
- Date collected
- 25 July to 11 August 1874
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1906
- Materials and processes
- Material Palm Leaf Plant, Material Sennit Coconut Seed Fibre Plant, Material Wool Textile Animal, Process Plaited, Process Bound, Process Basketry
- Dimensions
- Length 390 mm, Width 343 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1906.10.21
- Research and responses
This object was examined on the 29/30th November 2012 by Lucie Carreau as part of the work of the AHRC-funded project 'Fijian Art: Political Power, Sacred Value, Social Transformation and Collecting Since the 18th Century' (2011-2014). Her notes read: "local name "ilribuli" according to Yalo i Viti but I am sure I have seen them being called "I iri" elsewhere" [FB 04/12/2012]
1906.10.21
Fan of woven palm leaf with sennit bound handle. The top edge of the fan has a short fringe of brown ?wool. [LKG 01/10/2009]
1906.10.21
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