Spindle Item Number: 36.755.5 from the Brooklyn Museum
Description
Spindle with discolored white thread attached to it; wooden whorl is covered with reddish paint and decorated with painted red and yellow stripes. Condition: good
Credit Line
Gift of Dr. John H. Finney
Item History
- Made between 1000 and 1476
What
- Name
- Spindle
- Identification Number
- 36.755.5
- Type of Item
- spindle
- Material
- wood, cotton ?, camelid fibre ? and pigment
- Overall
- length 0.5 in, width 9.8125 in
Who
- Culture
- Chancay
Where
- Holding Institution
- Brooklyn Museum
When
- Creation Date
- between 1000 and 1476
Other
- Classification
- Tool