Spinning wheel; white wood with painted and pyroengraved flower patterns; distaff with flax and red ribbon; spindle with flax thread; 2 extra spools; height to top of distaff 1.53 M. Made of carved wood, paint, pyroengravings, flax, silk ribbon.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Austria
Verbatim coll. place:
Europe, prob. Austrian Tyrol or Switzerland
Collector:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Materials:
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)