Catalog Number
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Catalog Number |
CAS 0514-0243A,B | |
| Category | Textiles; Tools & Implements | |
| Object Name | Weaving implement (spindle with yarn and wool) | |
| Culture | Highland Quechuan | |
| Global Region | South America | |
| Country | Peru | |
| State/Prov./Dist. | Puno | |
| County | ||
| Other Geographic Data | Town: Puno | |
| Maker's Name | Unknown | |
| Date of Manufacture | ca. 1978 | |
| Collection Name | N/A | |
| Materials | Wood; Alpaca wool and yarn | |
| Description | Weaving spindle consisting of cylindrical hand carved wooden shaft that tapers to blunt point at each end and passes through center of round wooden spindle, a wooden disk with flat top and bottom and flaring sides (narrow end of whorl is toward bottom) that was probably turned on a lathe machine; Undetermined quantity of spun yarn in both gray and brown) is wrapped around spindle rod and is attached to bundles of carded but unspun gray and brown alpaca fibers. (Wool and yarn added to spindle in 1979 by CAS staff for exhibition.) | |
| Dimensions (cm) | Max Diam = 4.0, Length = 29.5 | |