distaff
- Museum number
- Am.6809.b
- Description
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Spindle; carved of wood (cedar?); to go with whorl Am.6809.a.
- Production date
- 1870 (before)
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 1.50 centimetres
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Height: 65.50 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- see JCH King `First Peoples, First Contacts' British Museum Press 1999
Identified by carver Jesse Recalma as cedar wood (3/2/2020).
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
1980-1981 1 Sep-30 Apr, Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia, Canada; Salish Art: Visions of Power, Symbols of Wealth
- Acquisition date
- 1870
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Am.6809.b
- Additional IDs
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CDMS number: Am1870C1.6809 (old CDMS no.)
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Miscellaneous number: Am1870C0803.34