Woven leaf fan with handle from Hawaii. Traditional weaving techniques were used to create the spade-shaped fan. The woven leaf strips are all of a similar width and are woven in a classic check design. Narrow leaf strips have been interspersed along the outer edge and the middle sections of the fan creating a subtle pinwheel pattern. Fans like this were widely available in Hawaii for the tourist market.
fans (costume accessories)
leaf (plant material)
Fan
"468" (written in pencil just above handle on back side of fan)
Original To Stephen Phillips House (Salem, Mass.),
Unknown
Pacific Island Group
15 x 10 1/2 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of the Stephen Phillips Memorial Charitable Trust for Historic Preservation
2006.44.3687
Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, Vol. II, No. 1 on Google Books
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