Set of spindles
date: label: Accession Date
content: 24 Nov 2000
label: Collection Date
content: 1970
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Labelle Prussin
label: Donor Name
content: Dr. Labelle Prussin
notes: label: Notes
content: 4 spindles and one spindle weight. The yarn on some of the spindles is handspun, single ply Z-spun cotton yarn. 1of 5: Wooden stick with large amount of yarn. 2 of 5: Wooden stick with yarn. 3 of 5: Large nut or seed (spindle weight) with narrow spindle and yarn. 4 of 5: small wooden spindle (no yarn) with round ceramic spindle weight. 5 of 5: Round ceramic spindle weight.
label: Notes
content: Donor's notes describes this as a set of spindles (fuseau a boule in French, kewal in Peul/Fulani), with indigenous grown, handspun cotton, plus one empty spindle and two very old terra cotta spindle weights. All purchased in the market at Djenne, Mali, 1970, from an old Fulani woman. The two terra cotta weights were found in an old abandoned house that had fallen down, in close proximity to a very old terra cotta pipe, which Prussin guesses dates to the 16th century. References: Monteil, Charles. 1903. Dienne. Monteil, Charles. 1926. "Le coton chez les noirs." Bull. Com. Et. Hist. & Scient. AOF IX, 4.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 20 Jan 2015
label: Specimen Count
content: 5
place: label: Place
content: Djenne, Mali, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Fulani (?)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 420734
label: USNM Number
content: E431608-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Spindle
physicalDescription: label: Length - Spindle W/thread 1
content: 34 cm
label: Width - Spindle W/thread 1
content: 8 cm
label: Length - Spindle W/thread 2
content: 30 cm
label: Width - Spindle W/thread 2
content: 4 cm
label: Length - Spindle With Whorl W/thread
content: 19 cm
label: Width - Spindle With Whorl W/thread
content: 5 cm
label: Length - Spindle And Whorl (W/o Thread)
content: 18.5 cm
label: Width - Spindle And Whorl (W/o Thread)
content: 3 cm
label: Diameter - Whorl
content: 2.5 cm