Spindle Whorl with Bird

Place CreatedSouth America

CultureChimu-Inka Interaction

PeriodLate Intermediate - Late Horizon

Dateca. 1438-1532 CE

MediumCeramic

Credit LineGift of the Estate of Mary Birney Foley, Collection of Theodore T. Foley

Dimensions1 3/8 x 1 in. (3.5 x 2.5 cm)

Object number2006.005.034

Exhibition HistoryThreads of Time: Tradition and Change in Indigenous American Textiles, Michael C. Carlos Museum, August 19 - December 17, 2017
Published ReferencesThreads of Time: Tradition and Change in Indigenous American Textiles, 2017, http://threads-of-time.carlos.emory.edu/items/show/89.
"The Best of the Best: Qumpi (Highest-Status Textiles) in Ancient Andean Thought and Practice," Threads of Time: Tradition and Change in Indigenous American Textiles, 2017, http://threads-of-time.carlos.emory.edu/exhibits/show/essays/bestofthebest.
"Capturing the Rainbow: Bolivian Textiles from Ancient to Modern Times," Threads of Time: Tradition and Change in Indigenous American Textiles, 2017, http://threads-of-time.carlos.emory.edu/exhibits/show/essays/rainbow.

ProvenanceEx coll. Theodore T. Foley (1915-1990), Georgia. Thence by descent to Mary Birney Foley (1916-2004), Georgia.

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