Spindle Item Number: 3263/71 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Spindle. Long, thin wooden shaft pointed at both ends and thicker at centre; pierces a clay bead in centre. Encircling lines in dark brown, yellow and white paint decorate the shaft on both sides of bead. Bead is round, painted black and decorated with an incised line towards its top. Line is filled with white paint. Tufts of wool(?) spun around the shaft, above the bead.
This type of spindle can be used vertically, to make Z spun yarns, or horizontally, to make S spun yarns.
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.
textile production