Of shield shape, pierced with an overall diamond border with flower patterns. It is painted gold and decorated with a polychrome Griffin at the center and a floral border. With a horn handle.
fans (equipment)
accessories
lip-vibrated aerophones with conical bore: with valves
horn (animal material)
painting (coating)
paper (fiber product)
piercing
floral patterns
lip-vibrated aerophones with conical bore: with valves
horn (animal material)
Unidentified Paper
Horn
Pierced
Painted
Floral
FAN
Original to Spencer-Peirce-Little Farm (Newbury, Mass.),
Unknown
Indonesia
13 x 7 (HxW) (inches)
Bequest of Amelia W. Little
1986.55
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