Spindle

Museum number:

9-11814a

Permalink:

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Accession number:

Acc.2910

Donor:

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Ready, Jr. Fund and Niloufer Hirschmann Ichaporia

Collection place:

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)