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Spindle whorl
Restitution status: Dubiousness is still to be clarified
Categories: Further categories / Further kinds of objects
Object Data
Artist
Museum
Inventory Number
ÖMV/82.318
Description
Spindle whorl from Central America?, clay, sculpted, diameter approx. 2.3 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
0.7 cm
Width
2.3 cm
Provenance Data
Former owner according to museum / collection
unknown
Benefaction/donation/presentation from a private collection
Provenance according to museum / collection
Field post delivery from Wolfgang Haberlandt to his parents.
Board of the Society for Folk Life and Folk Art
No decision has been reached so far.
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.
Request Object
© Art restitution National Fund of the Republic Austria for Victims of National Socialism