Spinning wheel

Museum number:
7-77
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Alternate number:
331 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.371
Description:
Spinning wheel with distaff. (a) Upright spinning wheel ornamented with pewter bindings; carved wooden rings, pendants; spun flax on spindle; height 80.2 cm. (b) Distaff with flax and blue silk ribbon, length 50 cm. Made of carved wood, pewter, flax, silk ribbon.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Central Europe
Verbatim coll. place:
Central Europe attr.
Collector:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Materials:
Metal, Pewter (tin alloy), and Wood (plant material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Carvings (visual works)
Function:
1.6 Manufacturing, Constructing, Craft, and Professional Pursuits
Accession date:
May 1909
Department:
Europe and western Russia (except Classical Mediterranean)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Spinning wheel, accession number 7-77, described as Spinning wheel with distaff. (a) Upright spinning wheel ornamented with pewter bindings; carved wooden rings, pendants; spun flax on spindle; height 80.2 cm. (b) Distaff with flax and blue silk ribbon, length 50 cm. Made of carved wood, pewter, flax, silk ribbon.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Spinning wheel, accession number 7-77, described as Spinning wheel with distaff. (a) Upright spinning wheel ornamented with pewter bindings; carved wooden rings, pendants; spun flax on spindle; height 80.2 cm. (b) Distaff with flax and blue silk ribbon, length 50 cm. Made of carved wood, pewter, flax, silk ribbon.

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