Spindle

Museum number:
16-8447
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21160008447
Accession number:
Acc.1149
Description:
Globose round-bottomed red vase with broad bottle-neck, 2 small loop handles, decoration: 6 human heads with high headdresses, arranged radially around bottle neck; height 7”
Donor:
Harold Heath and Ida Shelley
Collection place:
Huarocondo, Cusco Region, Southern Peru
Verbatim coll. place:
[Ledger: Peru, Huarocondo, Dept. of Cuzco, said to have been found in sheltered tombs]
Collector:
Barbara B. Rowe
Collection date:
1943
Object type:
archaeology
Object class:
Spindles (textile working equipment)
Accession date:
1954
Department:
South America (except Ancient Peru)
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Spindle, accession number 16-8447, described as Globose round-bottomed red vase with broad bottle-neck, 2 small loop handles, decoration: 6 human heads with high headdresses, arranged radially around bottle neck; height 7”Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Spindle, accession number 16-8447, described as Globose round-bottomed red vase with broad bottle-neck, 2 small loop handles, decoration: 6 human heads with high headdresses, arranged radially around bottle neck; height 7”Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Spindle, accession number 16-8447, described as Globose round-bottomed red vase with broad bottle-neck, 2 small loop handles, decoration: 6 human heads with high headdresses, arranged radially around bottle neck; height 7”

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