Wooden Spindle

Diné (Navajo)
Southwest

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1971

Wood

Overall: 28 1/8 × 9/16 × 9/16 in. (71.5 × 1.4 × 1.5 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Professor Alfred Frank Whiting

171.14.24693

Geography

Place Made: United States, North America

Period

20th century

Object Name

Tools and Equipment: Weaving

Research Area

Native American

Native American: Southwest

Not on view

Provenance

White Lane Trading Post; Museum of Northern Arizona Navajo Exhibition (no. 42W), Flagstaff, Arizona; sold to Alfred Frank Whiting (1912-1978), 1971; given to present collection, 1971.

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