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Scalloped shaped flat body made of single dried leaf (possibly palm) with shaped edge bound with rattan and terminating in a stick hand, also wrapped with rattan; natural color.
fans (equipment)
accessories
palm leaf
rattan
weaving
palm leaf
Rattan
Woven
Palm
FAN
Original to Sayward-Wheeler House (York Harbor, Me.),
Unknown
Japan; Polynesia
16 x 12 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of the heirs of Elizabeth Cheever Wheeler
1977.698.2
Possibly
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