Spindle with red yarn [.40]. Part of work basket. [El.B 01/12/2011]

Collection type: Object
Description: Spindle with red yarn [.40]. Part of work basket. [El.B 01/12/2011]
Geographical reference: Peru
Latin America and the Caribbean > South America > Peru; Coast
Person: Field collector Unknown Collector; PRM source Wellcome Historical Medical Museum
Date
Date collected: By 1952
Acquisition information: Donated: 1952
Materials and processes: Material Yarn, Material Pigment, Material Wood Plant, Process Spun, Process Dyed, Process Carved
Dimensions: Length: max 180 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1952.7.89.40
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]

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