Spindle Item Number: 3263/72 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Spindle with long, thin wooden shaft; pointed at both ends and thicker towards the centre. Encircling lines in dark brown and white paint decorate the shaft, towards the bottom end of the spindle.
This type of spindle can be used vertically, to make Z spun yarns, and horizontally, to make S spun yarns.
textile production
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.