Spindle

Brooklyn Museum

36.755.5

Spindle with discolored white thread attached to it; wooden whorl is covered with reddish paint and decorated with painted red and yellow stripes. Condition: good

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Dr. John H. Finney


  • Type of Item spindle
  • Culture Chancay
  • Material wood, cotton, camelid fibre, pigment
  • Measurements length 0.5 in, width 9.8125 in (overall)



  • Creation Date between 1000 and 1476

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