Spindle for Rope

Papua New Guinea

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Wood

Overall: 26 3/8 × 1 3/4 in. (67 × 4.5 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Acquired by exchange from the Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium, St. Johnsbury, Vermont

53.65.13193

Geography

Place Made: Papua New Guinea, Melanesia, Oceania

Object Name

Tools and Equipment: Weaving

Research Area

Oceania

Not on view

Provenance

Collected by Henry Clay Ide (1844-1921, Class of 1866), between 1893-1897; given to his daughter Anne Louisa Ide Cockran (1876-1945); given to The Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium, St. Johnsbury, Vermont; received by present collection in an exchange, 1953.

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