Spindles with cotton thread

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Object Number 30-65-50/H1185.1

Display Title Spindles with cotton thread

Descriptions

Inventory Description Spindle, worked wood stick with ground stone whorl at one end, skein of thread

Classification

Spindle

Department Ethnographic

Geography/Provenience/Site Name

Africa / Congo

Additional Geographic Terms Faradje and Buta; between

Materials Wood, Cotton, Stone

Dimensions Overall: 30.7 x 3.1 x 3.1 cm (12 1/16 x 1 1/4 x 1 1/4 in.)

Quantity 1

Label on object 30-65-50/H1185.1

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Object Number	Title	Classification	Geography/Provenience
30-65-50/H1185.2	Spindles with cotton thread	Spindle	Congo
30-36-50/B4820	Spindles with cotton wound around one end	Spindle	Liberia
08-36-70/74269	Spindles of "linen" (dummi) fiber thread	Spindle	Eastern Lepanto Northern Nueva Vizcaya
08-36-70/74270	Spindle of cotton thread	Spindle	Eastern Lepanto Northern Nueva Vizcaya
09-3-30/75794	Spindles and part of a small loom ?	Spindle	Peru
973-42-50/11736	Spindles, with gourd collars (3 examples); "tchali buge", less expensive, but mo	Spindle	Northern Wallega
09-3-30/75931	Spindles	Spindle	Piro
08-36-70/74270.1	Spindle of cotton thread	Spindle	Northern Nueva Vizcaya Eastern Lepanto
09-3-30/75869	Spindles	Spindle	Peru
17-30-20/C7751	Spindles	Spindle	Guatemala
73-6-30/7323	Organic, wooden spindles with whorls and thread, painted	Tool	Ancon
30-65-50/H1186.1	Spindles	Spindle	Congo

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