Fan
This is a common souvenir purchased by visitors to Tonga. However, fans are common to Pacific life. Using an intricate weave, women would use pandanus, coconut and palm leaves, which are hand cut and sun-bleached. Natural vegetal dyes would provide additional colour. The addition of bark cloth to the palm weave makes this an interesting item.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 7/1983/11
- Category
- Ethnography
- Collection Class
- Clothing and accessories
- Collection Area Region
- POLYN
- Material
- vegetable fibrebarkvegetable fibre
- Common Name
- fan
- Simple Name
- hand fan
- Production Country
- Tonga
- Production Year High
- 1975
