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Object Number 32-61-50/B5155
Display Title Spindle
Descriptions
Inventory Description Carved wooden spindle, pointed tip, with ceramic whorl, conical, cotton tie.
Classification
  • Spindle
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Bara
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Madagascar
Dimensions Overall: 64.8 x 5.2 x 5.3 cm (25 1/2 x 2 1/16 x 2 1/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 32-61-50/B5155; 186007

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