Spindle whorl (Image withheld, pending review)
date: label: Date created
content: 100 BC–AD 1300 (Basketmaker II to Pueblo III period)
name: label: Culture/People
content: possibly Multiple archaeological cultures (attributed), including Ancestral Pueblo (Anasazi): Basketmaker and Ancestral Pueblo (Anasazi): Northern San Juan Traditions
label: Expedition
content: Whitmore Exploring Expedition (1897)
label: Expedition leader
content: Richard Wetherill, Non-Indian, 1858-1910
label: Previous owner
content: Frederick E. Hyde, Jr. (Frederick Erastus Hyde Jr.), Non-Indian, 1874-1944
label: Previous owner
content: B. Talbot B. Hyde (Benjamin Talbot Babbitt Hyde/B. T. Babbitt Hyde/B.T.B. Hyde), Non-Indian, 1872-1933
label: Seller
content: B. Talbot B. Hyde (Benjamin Talbot Babbitt Hyde/B. T. Babbitt Hyde/B.T.B. Hyde), Non-Indian, 1872-1933
label: Presenter/funding source
content: Thea Heye (Thea Kowne/Mrs. Dorothea Page/Mrs. George Gustav Heye), Non-Indian, 1888-1935
notes: label: Collection History
content: Collected or excavated between January and March 1897 during the Whitmore Exploring Expedition led by Richard Wetherill (1858-1910) and sponsored by Charles E. Whitmore Jr. (1870-ca. 1940) and George Bowles; sold in 1897 to B. Talbot B. Hyde (1872-1933) and his brother Frederick E. Hyde, Jr. (1874-1944); donated to the American Museum of Natural History (New York City) by the Hyde brothers; withdrawn from the AMNH collection by B. Talbot B. Hyde in August 1909 and lent to the University of Pennsylvania Museum (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) in conjunction with the George Heye collection there; purchased by George Heye from B. Talbot B. Hyde in February 1916 using funds donated by Thea (Mrs. George) Heye.
label: Contact Us
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place: label: Place
content: Room 17; Long House (Poncho House), Chinle Creek (Rio de Chelly), south side of San Juan River; Navajo Reservation; San Juan County; Utah; USA
setName: label: See related items
content: Multiple archaeological cultures
label: See related items
content: Weaving tools/equipment
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of the American Indian
identifier: label: Catalog Number
content: 7/3900
label: Barcode
content: 073900.000
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Weaving tools/equipment
physicalDescription: label: Object Name
content: Spindle whorl (Image withheld, pending review)
label: Media/Materials
content: Wood
label: Techniques
content: Drilled