Spindle with turtle bone whorl, native cotton and thread. Maué, Brazil.
Donor:
Seth Leacock
Collection place:
Vila Nova, Rio Andirá, Brazil
Verbatim coll. place:
Rio Andira, Vila Nova., Brazil
Culture or time period:
Sateré-Mawé
Materials:
Turtle shell
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Whorls (spindle flywheels)
Accession date:
1957
Department:
South America (except Ancient Peru)
Loans:
S1965-1966 #88: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/John Desmond Clark (June 1, 1966–June 1, 1966), S1965-1966 #92: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/Robert F. G. Spier (June 16, 1966–July 29, 1966), S1966-1967 #109: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/John Desmond Clark (May 11, 1967–May 11, 1967), S1970-1971 #143: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/John Desmond Clark (June 11, 1971–June 16, 1971), S1971-1972 #4: Department of Anthropology (Stanford Univ.)/Robert L. Hoover (July 12, 1971–July 26, 1971), and S1979-1980 #71: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/John Desmond Clark (June 12, 1980–June 16, 1980)