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Object Number 2013.24.230.5
Display Title Spindle with white cotton and whorls
Descriptions
Inventory Description Spindle, tapered wooden whorl, wrapped with spun white cotton
Classification
  • Whorl
  • Spindle
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Maya
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Central America / Guatemala
Materials Wood , Cotton
Dimensions Overall: 40 × 5.5 cm (15 3/4 × 2 3/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 2013.24.230.5
Credit Line Gift of Mary Dodge Cobb in memory of Bertha Sanford (Wiener) Dodge and Carroll William Dodge, who together collected these Guatemalan textiles
Provenance
Collector Bertha Sanford Dodge
Collector Carroll William Dodge
Donor Donated by Mary Dodge Cobb

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