- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Spool made from a length of dark coloured bamboo wound with red coloured banana fibre. [BS [OPS Move] 3/4/2017]
- Geographical reference
- Kosrae
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 10/1873
- Date collected
- 20 September - 12 October 1873
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1921
- Materials and processes
- Material Banana (Abaca) Fibre Plant, Material Pigment, Material Bamboo Plant, Process Dyed, Process Wound
- Dimensions
- Diameter: max 21 mm, Length: max 215 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1921.93.263
Search terms: Textile, Weaving Accessory, Spool
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