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1900-1991
GUSN-49543
Painted and shaped bamboo sticks and guards; paper leaf painted with whooping cranes in rushes, moutains behind, pink sky; chrysanthemums in corners over gilt; metal handle with tan cotton cord.
fans (equipment)
accessories
bamboo (material)
painting (coating)
paper (fiber product)
rush (material)
bamboo (material)
floral patterns
flowers (plants)
figure- and animal-derived motifs
cranes (birds)
mountains
rush (material)
Bamboo
Unidentified Paper
Painted
Crane
Rush
Mountain
Chrysanthemum
FAN
Original to Sayward-Wheeler House (York Harbor, Me.),
Unknown
Gift of the heirs of Elizabeth Cheever Wheeler
1977.600
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