Backstrap loom
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1 Dec 1989
label: Collection Date
content: 1975
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Philip Gould
label: Donor Name
content: Dr. Philip Gould
notes: label: Notes
content: Backstrap loom in 8 parts: warp beam, 2-part cloth beam (2 pieces that fit together), weaving sword, shed stick, shuttle/spool, and 2 loom sticks. The warp beam is a large, heavy piece of hollowed-out wood, with a long slit along one side. All of the parts are made of carved wood, except the two bamboo loom sticks. The shed stick has narrow bands of carved cris-crossed lines near the ends; but all of the pieces are otherwise unadorned. Shows signs of use and wear, especially the warp beam, which has large scratches. Chen Chi Lu, in "Material Culture of the Formosan Aborigines" (Taipei: the Taiwan Museum, 1968, p 100-109) identifies the pieces of this type of loom and describes how it would be used to weave twill and plain weave textiles. The loom was collected in 1975, but the donor estimates that it is much older, possibly from the 19th century.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 1 Aug 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 8
place: label: Place
content: Taiwan, China, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Atayal (Tayal)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 374705
label: USNM Number
content: E431524-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Loom
physicalDescription: label: Length - Warp Beam
content: 100.5 cm
label: Width - Warp Beam
content: 23 cm
label: Height - Warp Beam
content: 32 cm
label: Length - Cloth Beam 1
content: 66.5 cm
label: Width - Cloth Beam 1
content: 4.5 cm
label: Height - Cloth Beam 1
content: 2.7 cm
label: Length - Cloth Beam 2
content: 67 cm
label: Width - Cloth Beam 2
content: 5 cm
label: Height - Cloth Beam 2
content: 2.5 cm
label: Length - Weaving Sword
content: 64.7 cm
label: Width - Weaving Sword
content: 5 cm
label: Height - Weaving Sword
content: 2.3 cm
label: Length - Shed Stick
content: 49.5 cm
label: Width - Shed Stick
content: 4.8 cm
label: Length - Shuttle/spool
content: 49.5 cm
label: Width - Shuttle/spool
content: 2.4 cm
label: Length - Loom Stick 1
content: 69 cm
label: Length - Loom Stick 2
content: 47.5 cm