Spindle Whorls

Unidentified Colima maker

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about 900-1200

Red terracotta

Overall: 13/16 × 1 1/4 in. (2 × 3.2 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of the Family of E. F. Carter, Class of 1932 and C. B. Fisher, Class of 1932

31.2.4768

Geography

Place Made: Manzanillo, Mexico, North America

Period

1000-1400

Object Name

Tools and Equipment: Weaving

Research Area

Americas

Funerary Objects

Not on view

Provenance

Collected by Edwin Follett Carter (1909-1932) and Charles Barnard Fisher (1910-1974), summer of 1931; lent to present collection, 1931; given to present collection, 1933.

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