{ "summary": { "title": "spindle (textileworking: yarn preparation & felting); textile tool" }, "identifier": [ { "accession_number": "3.1.59\/2", "type": "accession number", "value": "3.1.59\/2", "primary": true }, { "note": [ { "value": "ex Musee de L'Homme (exchange source)" } ], "source": "object", "type": "external number", "value": "90.16.71-8" } ], "note": [ { "type": "catalogue note", "value": "No catalogue card at Museum. Schedules in Musee de l\u2019Homme file in historical records. 2013-04-11; Richardson, Esther. Identified as a distaff by Pedro Augusto of the National Museum of Ethnology in Lisbon. He adds that this type can be seen in regions along the Douro river and along the sea coast from the centre to the north of the country, particularly in villages from the Mara\u0303o mountain, and districts such as Amarante, Castro Daire, Viseu, Sabugal and, less commonoly, in Pampilhosa da Serra, Funda\u0303o or Castelo Branco. In the islands of Madeira and the Azores, the most common distaffs are of this type too. July 2013." } ], "loan": { "value": "Y" }, "description": [ { "type": "catalogue description", "value": "Distaff made from a spliced wooden branch with cork discs inserted as support for the distended ovoid. The 4 discs are of different diameter. 3 are threaded onto a partially spliced twig. The fourth one is held in by the spliced sections. Another spliced area suggests that an additional small cork disc might have originally been inserted at this point. The textile tool is cut at both ends. The longer end is decorated with 4 incised bands containing diagonals or lattice pattern. The shorter end is decorated with 1 band of incised lattice pattern. The tip has been carved into a tiered pyramidal shape.", "primary": true }, { "date": [ { "earliest": 2003, "value": "2003-11-21", "latest": 2003, "primary": true } ], "type": "object description", "value": "Spindle made from a spliced wooden branch with cork discs inserted as support for the distended ovoid. The 4 discs are of different diameter. 3 are threaded onto a partially spliced twig. The fourth one is held in by the spliced sections. Another spliced area suggests that an additional small cork disc might have originally been inserted at this point. The textile tool is cut at both ends. The longer end is decorated with 4 incised bands containing diagonals or lattice pattern. The shorter end is decorated with 1 band of incised lattice pattern. The tip has been carved into a tiered pyramidal shape." }, { "attribution": { "date": [ { "earliest": 1959, "value": "1959", "latest": 1959, "primary": true } ], "source": "history files" }, "type": "original description", "value": "One of 3 distaffs, reed and wood." } ], "language": [ "eng" ], "collection": "Anthropology", "type": { "sub_type": [ "general" ], "scope": "WHOLE", "base": "object" }, "@admin": { "processed": 1729029541036, "sequence": 7493533, "uid": "hmc-object-121538", "added": 1664530755474, "stream": "collections-online", "id": "object-121538", "source": "hmc", "uuid": "8523d406-6163-3e3c-96ee-0589c8e53385" }, "material": [ { "type": "catalogue materials", "value": "wood; cork (bark)", "primary": true } ], "ownership": [ { "owner": [ { "summary": { "title": "Musee de L'Homme" }, "@link": { "date": { "value": "-1959-01-03", "latest": 1959 }, "role": [ { "value": "previous owner" } ], "attribution": { "date": [ { "earliest": 1959, "value": "1959-01-03", "latest": 1959, "primary": true } ], "attributor": "curator", "source": "accession registers" } }, "@admin": { "uid": "hmc-agent-2234", "id": "agent-2234", "uuid": "65cc1aa3-f2d7-3dc6-99e9-74076f1715d5" }, "@entity": "reference" } ], "@entity": "lifecycle" } ], "legal": { "status": "permanent collection" }, "name": [ { "type": "catalogue name", "value": "spindle (textileworking: yarn preparation & felting); textile tool", "primary": true }, { "@reference": { "summary": { "title": "spindles (textileworking: yarn preparation & felting)" }, "@link": { "role": [ { "value": "object name" } ], "variation": 109923 }, "@admin": { "uid": "hmc-term-502749", "id": "term-502749", "uuid": "13ab05b2-af45-3288-8b9d-710897c57b26" }, "@entity": "reference" }, "type": "object name" }, { "type": "object name (local)" }, { "type": "object name (Horniman Ethno.)", "value": "spindle (textileworking: yarn preparation & felting)" }, { "type": "object name (unclassified)", "value": "textile tool" } ], "options": { "item_count": "1", "flag4": "N", "flag3": "Y", "flag2": "N", "flag1": "N" }, "appraisal": [ { "source": "catalogue", "@entity": "lifecycle" } ], "term": [ { "summary": { "title": "spindles (textileworking: yarn preparation & felting)" }, "@link": { "role": [ { "value": "object name" } ] }, "@admin": { "uid": "hmc-term-502749", "id": "term-502749", "uuid": "13ab05b2-af45-3288-8b9d-710897c57b26" }, "@entity": "reference" } ], "category": [ { "type": "category1", "value": "Anthropology: Ethnography" } ], "physical": [ { "note": "(AAT) Spittler, Ute 2003-11-21", "component": "overall", "term": "wood", "descriptor": "material", "@reference": { "summary": { "title": "wood" }, "@link": { "role": [ { "value": "material" } ] }, "@admin": { "uid": "hmc-term-1015488", "id": "term-1015488", "uuid": "9374e5ef-ab0b-3b66-84bd-3f9728ed1f9a" }, "@entity": "reference" }, "type": "material" }, { "note": "(AAT) Spittler, Ute 2003-11-21", "component": "support", "term": "cork (bark)", "descriptor": "material", "@reference": { "@entity": "literal" }, "type": "material" } ], "facility": [ { "summary": { "title": "shA" }, "note": [ { "value": "Location automatically updated from SCC; 3\/1; 28; ; A; 11 as part of rationalisation of SCC locations, Rupert Shepherd, 2012-06-30." } ], "@link": { "container": "Box:3\/1-28-A-011", "date": { "earliest": 2009, "value": "2009-02-26", "latest": 2009 }, "level4": "shA", "current": "Y", "last": { "level5": "00000A", "level6": "000001", "location": "Horniman Museum. 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