Spindle whorl (Image withheld, pending review)
- Previous owner
- Manuel B. Zavaleta, Non-Indian, 1862-1925
- Previous seller
- Manuel B. Zavaleta, Non-Indian, 1862-1925
- Previous owner
- Field Museum of Natural History (Chicago Natural History Museum), 1893-
- Collection History
- Collection history unknown; part of a collection assembled by Manuel B. Zavaleta (1862-1925, an Argentine police chief and public official) of material excavated and looted from archaeological sites in Argentina in the 1880s and 1890s; exhibited as part of Manuel Zavaleta's collection at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1904; purchased by the Field Museum of Natural History (Chicago, Illinois) from Manuel Zavaleta in 1904 or 1905; acquired by MAI through an exchange with the Field Museum in 1918.
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- Place
- Tafí del Valle Department; Tucumán Province; Argentina
- See related items
- Weaving tools/equipment
- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Catalog Number
- 8/7076
- Barcode
- 087076.000
- Object Type
- Weaving tools/equipment
- Object Name
- Spindle whorl (Image withheld, pending review)
- Media/Materials
- Steatite/soapstone
- Techniques
- Ground, drilled, incised
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
- Record ID
- NMAI_93534