Spindle whorl

Unidentified Maya maker

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Pre-Columbian

Red terracotta

Overall: 1 3/16 × 9/16 in. (3 × 1.4 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Karl Bailey, Class of 1961P

158.27.14265

Geography

Place Made: Chichén Itzá, Mexico, North America

Object Name

Tools and Equipment: Weaving

Research Area

Americas

Not on view

Provenance

Collected by Pedro Castillo [worked by Sylvanus Morely at Chichen Itza]; given to Karl Bailey [father of Richard Bailey, Class of 1961], Birmingham, Michigan; given to present collection, 1958.

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