Pitt Rivers Museum Anthropology and World Archaology

 

Asia

 

Fan

India

 

Collected by James Philip Mills

Given to the Museum in 1948

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This fan from India is made from five hornbill wing feathers. Wing feathers produced a strong, effective fan, which when used had the appearance of a beating wing.

View database record 1948.7.9