Spindle Whorls
Unidentified Colima maker
about 900-1200
Red terracotta
Overall: 7/8 × 1 3/16 in. (2.2 × 3 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of the Family of E. F. Carter, Class of 1932 and C. B. Fisher, Class of 1932
31.2.4764
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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