Pitt Rivers Museum Anthropology and World Archaology

 

Americas

 

Eagle wing fan

North America

 

Collected by L. Conningham in around 1909

Given to the Museum by Irene Marguerite Beasley in 1954

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Amongst many native American peoples, eagle feathers are sacred. This eagle wing fan is likely to have been used to fan purifying smoke during ceremonies. It has been decorated with quillwork, trade beads, metal jingles, and bunches of red-dyed feathers.

View database record 1954.8.142