Object Number | 2003-72-329 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Provenience | Senegal |
Section | African |
Materials | Wood |
Technique | Carved |
Description | Wooden weaving tool; wooden block w/ "V" criss-cross grooves. On this block of wood seeds were worked out of the raw cotton. The cotton would then be fluffed with a simple bow before being spun with a drop spindle. |
Height | 5.5 cm |
Width | 8 cm |
Credit Line | Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003 |
Other Number | 1995.X.16199 - Other Number |
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