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roller

human history
  • Other Name

    Bena (Timorese)

  • Description

    Rolling board, for rolling cotton on.

    roughly rectangular piece of board. loose cotton is rolled on it onto a length of stick. the cotton is then slid off as a cylinder and is spun from one end; also stick to toll cotton around and samples of un-worked cotton; some rolled into cylinders; BENA.

  • Place
    Boti Village/Central Timor/Timor/Indonesia
  • Accession Number
    1993.33
  • Accession Date
    1993
  • Other Id

    54365 (ethnology)

    54365.1 (ethnology)

    54365.2 (ethnology)

  • Department

    World

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