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1952.7.89.29

Spindle with painted pottery whorl and yellow yarn [.29]. Part of work basket. [El.B 01/12/2011]

1952.7.89.29

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Collection type
Object
Description
Spindle with painted pottery whorl and yellow yarn [.29]. Part of work basket. [El.B 01/12/2011]
Date
Date collected
By 1952
Acquisition information
Donated: 1952
Materials and processes
Material Yarn, Material Pigment, Material Wood Plant, Material Pottery, Process Spun, Process Dyed, Process Carved, Process Painted
Dimensions
Length: max 277 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1952.7.89.29
Associated publications
Illustrated with a line drawing in the leaflet 'Basketry in The Pitt Rivers Museum', devised by Felicity Wood with the Oxfordshire Basketmakers, 2001. It is also featured on the website http://basketry.ashmolean.org. [JN 14/11/2001; MN 16/07/2010] Illustrated in colour as Figure 17.6 on page 376 of 'South America', by Bill Sillar and Dan Hicks, in World Archaeology at the Pitt Rivers Museum: A Characterization, edited by Dan Hicks and Alice Stevenson (Oxford: Archaeopress, 2013), pp. 358-382. Caption (same page): 'Figure 17.6 Ancient Peruvian work-basket from the Wellcome collection (PRM Accession Number 1952.7.89), containing balls of dyed cotton thread, bundles of vicuña wool, 104 spindles, some with spun yarn still wound round them, painted pottery whorls, and bundles of raw cotton and woollen yarn in red, yellow, blue, brown, pink and black.'. [MJD 04/07/2014]

Search terms: Textile, Yarn, Weaving Accessory, Spindle

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