Spindle whorl

Restitution status: Dubiousness is still to be clarified

Categories: Further categories / Further kinds of objects

Object Data

 

Artist

Museum

Inventory Number

ÖMV/82.317

Description

Spindle whorl from Central America?, clay, sculpted, diameter approx. 3.7 cm. Packaged in a brown field post envelope. On the reverse in Arthur Haberlandts handwriting is written “Mittelamerika”. Postal stamp dated 1.10.1944. Addressed to Mr. and Mrs. Prof. Dr. A. Haberlandt, Vienna 117, Sieveringerstr. 5, Sender: Ogfr. W. Haberlandt, L 50397K Lypa. Posen.  

Height

1 cm

Width

3.7 cm

Provenance Data

 

Former owner according to museum / collection

unknown

Provenance

Benefaction/donation/presentation from a private collection

Provenance according to museum / collection

Field post delivery from Wolfgang Haberlandt to his parents.

Committee in charge

Board of the Society for Folk Life and Folk Art

Decision

No decision has been reached so far.

Implementation

The art or cultural object is kept in the museum/in the collection.

Annotations

The object was found in 2004 due to clean-up work in the museum and was inventoried afterwards.

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