Ash Cake
29-60-27B
From: Guatemala | Department of Alta Verapaz | Cahabon
Curatorial Section: American
Object Number | 29-60-27B |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Kekchi |
Provenience | Guatemala | Department of Alta Verapaz | Cahabon |
Culture Area | Central American |
Section | American |
Materials | Ash | Leaf |
Description | A) spindle has some yarn on it; it is wrapped in a sample of the beaten cotton wool from which the yarn is spun. B) small cake of ashes that spinner was using is wrapped in a leaf. See 29-60-30. |
Credit Line | Guatemalan Expedition, Robert Burkitt, 1920 |
Other Number | 253 - Field No SF |
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