Spindle

Museum number:
9-11811
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.2910
Description:
Spindle; drop spindle; whorl is coconut shell with yellow lacquered (?) back. Used by women of the priestly group in spinning lamb’s wool for kastis, Parsi sacred thread.
Donor:
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Ready, Jr. Fund and Niloufer Hirschmann Ichaporia
Collection place:
Maharashtra State, India
Collector:
Niloufer Hirschmann Ichaporia
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Spindles (textile working equipment)
Function:
5.1 Religion and Divination: Objects and garb associated with practices reflecting submission, devotion, obedience, and service to supernatural agencies
Accession date:
December 7, 1972
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Spindle, accession number 9-11811, described as Spindle; drop spindle; whorl is coconut shell with yellow lacquered (?) back. Used by women of the priestly group in spinning lamb’s wool for kastis, Parsi sacred thread.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Spindle, accession number 9-11811, described as Spindle; drop spindle; whorl is coconut shell with yellow lacquered (?) back. Used by women of the priestly group in spinning lamb’s wool for kastis, Parsi sacred thread.

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