Distaff; elaborately turned and carved. Four alternating sections of wood and bone or ivory. Decorated with small carved knobs—bone on the wood section and wood on the bone sections. A) length 19 cm; B) length: 9.4 cm. Total length: 36 cm. Maximum width: 2.7 cm.
Donor:
Design Department (UC Berkeley)
Collection place:
Majorca, Balearic Islands, Spain
Verbatim coll. place:
Spain; Majorca
Culture or time period:
Spaniards
Collector:
May Benton MacLafferty
Collection date:
1960
Materials:
Bone (material), Ivory (material), and Wood (plant material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Carvings (visual works)
Function:
5.3 Objects relating to the Secular and Quasi-religious Rites, Pageants, and Drama
Accession date:
1974
Context of use:
Possibly a gift from a suitor to a bride to be. Not for practical use.
Department:
Europe and western Russia (except Classical Mediterranean)