Spindle Item Number: 3263/88 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Fragment of a spindle shaft. Top end is tapered, bottom end is splintered. Dark and light brown bands painted near the base. Dark yellow cotton yarn wound around shaft, above the painted decoration.
Cotton on spindle is Z-spun.
Collected in Peru before the 1970s by Ina VanStan, a Professor of Textiles and Clothing at the Florida State College for Women (Florida State University) from the 1940s to c. 1966. VanStan later gifted her collection to the donor. A large amount of the donation was used for teaching at the University of Alberta while others were mainly small study fragments.
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