Wooden Spindle
Diné (Navajo)
Southwest
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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