Spindle

Object status:
Deaccessioned
Museum number:
TEMP 2018.353
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
52 (original number, donor number)
Accession number:
Acc.4620
Description:
Twenty-one (21) wooden weaving sticks with painted on stripes, ranging in color from black to red to white; two have thread woven around the stick; one has a round wooden ball around the middle of the spindle
Donor:
Arthur Beynon and Evelyn Beynon
Collection place:
Peru
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Spindles (textile working equipment)
Department:
South America (except Ancient Peru)
Dimensions:
smallest spindle and largest spindle— length 12.7 inches and smallest spindle and largest spindle— length 4.5 inches
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Spindle, accession number TEMP 2018.353, described as Twenty-one (21) wooden weaving sticks with painted on stripes, ranging in color from black to red to white; two have thread woven around the stick; one has a round wooden ball around the middle of the spindleHearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Spindle, accession number TEMP 2018.353, described as Twenty-one (21) wooden weaving sticks with painted on stripes, ranging in color from black to red to white; two have thread woven around the stick; one has a round wooden ball around the middle of the spindle

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