Wooden Spindle-Whorl
date: label: Accession Date
content: 12 Sep 1903
name: label: Collector
content: Lt. George T. Emmons
label: Donor Name
content: Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, 1904
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Same as "A" except quite thin and the carved representation of a wolf-like animal with its tail in its mouth is not carved all over like "C & D", but only has a row of arrow-shaped points running down the middle of the body. About 2 1/2" of the left edge has been irregularly broken off (not damaging the carving.) Loaned to the Whitney Museum of American Art on Sept. 10, 1971. Returned ... 2-9-72. Illus.: Hndbk. N. Amer. Ind., Vol. 7, Northwest Coast, Fig. 5e, pg. 460."
label: Notes
content: Illus. Fig. 3.15, p. 44 in Brotherton, Barbara. 2008. S'abadeb = The gifts : Pacific Coast Salish arts and artists. Seattle: Seattle Art Museum in association with University of Washington Press. Figure caption notes: "The sinuous creature delicately carved into the darkened wood (perhaps maple wood) bends a flexible body around the circular whorl to catch his tail in his mouth. The series of crescent and trigon shapes that might represent his spinal anatomy drive the flow in a circular direction, imparting a perceptible sense of motion or activity. Both the economy of carving and the particular structure of the eye are reminiscent of older styles, suggesting a much earlier date of manufacture (ca. 1800) than the time this piece was collected - at the turn of the twentieth century."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 16 Feb 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: British Columbia, Canada, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Cowichan (Quw'utsun)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 041512
label: USNM Number
content: E221179E-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Spindle Whorl