Basket and contents
date: label: Date
content: 11th–14th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Outer basket of plaited rushes partly covered with coarse undyed cotton cloth and a plaited multicolored wool cord. Inner basket of plaited rushes with cloth covering made with double warps and containing: four cotton fiber cones, one small loom with cotton warp and cotton weft on a shuttle, one shed tied to a stick; one wound with wool and cotton yarns and a tassel; two full thread holders, each made of crossed sticks; sixteen thorn spindles, each painted and with decorated clay bead; nine thorn spindles painted (four of these with hollow stem, substitute for bead); two long stem thread-holders with bead at each end wound with wool yarn; six pieces of stem wound with cotton; one long hank of undyed cotton yarn.
place: label: made in
content: Peru
setName: label: See more items in
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
label: See more items in
content: Textiles Department
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1954-139-11-a/tt
objectType: label: Type
content: appliances & tools
label: Type
content: Basket and contents
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: rushes, cotton, wool, clay beads
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D: 40 x 22 x 17 cm (15 3/4 x 8 11/16 x 6 11/16 in.)