Beads or Spindle Whorls
Five ceramic spindle whorls: disc shaped to largely cylindrical; various sizes; alll are burnished red slip ( one darkened by reduction fire); designs are etched with evidence of white chalky pigment ( or slip) on some. Three have zig zag designs and remaining two have horizontal lines and a band of small circles.
- Object: Beads or Spindle Whorls
- Artist: -
- Circa: -
- Dimensions: approx. heights: 1/2" - 2/3" approx. diameters: 1/4" - 2/3"
- Culture Area: Mesoamerica
- Cultural Group: West Mexico
- Cultural Context: -
- Donor: Douglas and Mary Hallock
- Catalog #: 95.108