Handmade wood spindle with whorl hand painted red and white. Copse of hand spun naturally colored cotton, some sections of cotton appear to be single ply and some are two ply of natural brown and natural white cotton.
Donor:
Anne Connell Wilson
Collection place:
Sololá Department, Guatemala
Verbatim coll. place:
San Jorge, Lake Atitlan
Culture or time period:
Kaqchikel
Collector:
Anne Connell Wilson
Collection date:
March 2005
Materials:
Cotton (textile) and Wood (plant material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Spindles (textile working equipment)
Function:
1.6 Manufacturing, Constructing, Craft, and Professional Pursuits
Accession date:
March 6, 2017
Department:
Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean area
Dimensions:
whole— width 3.5 centimeters and whole— length 36 centimeters