Description (Physical description)
Accession Register for 1962.308 [A-C]: 'three twilled basket fire fans'.
Event Date
Author: Jazmin Hundal

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card for 1962.308 A-C: ' "Sopladeras", or fans for blowing fires. More or less square, of twilled basketry, set diamond-wise on a handle made by plaiting the ends of some of the constituent warps and wefts together. Made of strips of a liana called 'bena'. A: Texture differentiation between warps and wefts by using smooth side of material for one, rough for the other. B: Difference between warps and wefts as A, but outside colour is brown. A few interior warps painted red. C: cf. B, but the colour contrasts are obtained by irregular distribution of dark and light liana strips'.
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (Related Documents)
See archive (FA2/1/8) for ethnological collections reference list.
Event Date 1962
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Field collection)
Catalogue card notes 'Noanamá Indians, Taparral R, Chocó district'. Collected and donated by the by the Cambridge Calima Valley Expedition 1962.
Annotated later 'Original number 104'
Event Date 1962
Author: rachel hand

Context (Production / use)
Catalogue card reads, '?Sopladeras, or fans for blowing fires.'
Event Date 1962
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Sopladera. Woven fan, comprising of a square shaped section with a straight handle attached. Made of strips of liana called 'bena'. Fan features texture differentiation between warps and wefts by using smooth side of material for one, and rough for the other.
Event Date 16/6/2021
Author: Jazmin Hundal