Bobbin or spindle whorl with constriction, double incised lines for line effect
- Title:
- Bobbin or spindle whorl with constriction, double incised lines for line effect
- Collection:
- Selections from the Cornell Anthropology Collections
- Donor:
- Charles Fred Hartt
- Country:
- Brazil
- ID Number:
- Anthr1870_004_0115_01
- Old Catalog Number:
- 870.4.115
- File Name:
- Anthr1870_004_0115_01.jpg
- Culture:
- Native Amazonian
- Style/Period:
- Native Amazonian
- Work Type:
- whorls (spindle flywheels)
- Measurement:
- 50 x 38 (maximum) x 34 (minimum) x 7 (hole) (millimeters, height x diameter x diameter x diameter)
- Description:
- Design consists of three banded areas: ends and middle. Middle is curvilinear meander with space between bands filled with two short and one long pair of parallel lines. The ends are meandered into septagonals by this same method. Entire whorl much worn and erroded. Hole through whorl was drilled from each side to meet in middle.
Paste: very coarse to granular ground sherd temper, grainy texture, no luster.
Surface finish: Modelled and roughly smoothed prior to application of white slip and incision.Incision does not penetrate through the slip to the paste. Incision was done with a double pointed instrument approx. 3mm wide with a 1mm width per point.
Slip: Hardness: 3
Thickness: ?
Color: 10 YR 6/4 light yellow brown
Firing: dark red firing
incomplete oxid. of grey core to orange 2.5 YR 5/6. - Bibliography:
- Meggers and Evans, 1957
Palmatary, 1950 - Archival Collection:
- Amazonian ceramics
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
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