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# Spindle

Wooden spindle with metal hook to one end. Roughtly square-shaped whorl carved in a foliate design with numerous small circular indentations forming pattern. Wool wound around hook and running through whorl; the spun wool emerges on the other side of the whorl and is wrapped around the spindle.

- **Kind:** artefact

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Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/inp.artefact.bm.as1969-01-4](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.artefact.bm.as1969-01-4) · Pramāṇa
