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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