Spindle
date: label: Date
content: 1100–1400
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Spindle with slender wooden shaft tapered to ends. One end broken. Other end split with yarn caught through it. Cylindrical black pottery whorl in center, incised and painted red and white. Traces of black, red and white paint on shaft. Small amount of brown cotton yarn on shaft.
place: label: made in
content: Peru
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Textiles Department
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1920-1-3
objectType: label: Type
content: appliances & tools
label: Type
content: Spindle
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: wood shaft, ceramic whorl, paint, cotton yarn
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 21.7 cm (8 9/16 in.)