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Titolo dell'opera:
Twenty-five Spindles
Acquisizione:
Esso Standard s.d. donazione
Ambito culturale:
ambito Ancón
Epoca:
XII-II century BCE
Misure:
Unità di misura: cm; Lunghezza: 31; Varie: I fusi hanno dimensioni variabili.
Provenienza (nazione):
Perù
Tecnica:
legno, canna, terracotta
Ultimi prestiti:
L'America indigena nelle collezioni del Civico Istituto Colombiano di Genova - Palazzo Doria, Genova - Marzo 1990
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Descrizione:
Three groups of spindles including:
(1) three wire spindles of which two have terracotta spindles engraved with painted circular patterns and one pointed at one end only.
2) six polychrome-banded painted spindles of which four have engraved and painted spindles
3) sixteen spindles of which nine are painted with polychrome bands (two with only one end pointed and the other carved), four with spindles of which one is made of reed and three of which are made of engraved and painted terracotta, three with wire of which one is with an engraved and painted spindle and two with reed wire clips.
