1952.7.89.46

Collection type

Object

Description

Spindle, pointed stick of wood with remains of red and black painted stripes [.46]. 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 Wood Plant, Material Pigment, Process Carved, Process Painted

Dimensions

Length: max 214 mm

Object numbers

Accession number: 1952.7.89.46

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, Spindle, Weaving Accessory