Description (Labels & Markings)
Marked in white paint and black ink at the back, now fading: 'FLORES COLONY TAMPICO'
Event Date
Author: Elia Quijano Quinones

Context (References)
Ekholm, G.F. (1944). 'Excavations at Tampico and Panuco in the Huasteca, Mexico'. Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, 38(5).
Event Date 1944
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
Description for 1956.161[.1-3; .4 A; .5-19]: 'Spindle whorls (20) [only 19 found in 1985], falling generally into Ekholm's type 1, flat or gently plano-convex with moulded relief decoration on one side and black shiny painting mainly on the other, flat, side.'
Event Date 1956
Author: maa

Context (Analysis)
On card Bushnell has dated this as ' Probably 11th century' .
Event Date 1956
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Display)
Exhibited: 3 of this idno Maudslay Gallery Mexico Case until 1984 or 1985.
Event Date 1984
Author: maa

Conservation (Surface Clean)
CON.2025.6137 | Surface Clean
Event Date 21/1/2025
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Found together / assemblage)
Small fibres of organic material was found inside the hole of object 1956.161.16. Possibly a textile residue (see 1956.161.4 B). They were collected, cleaned and bagged accordingly.
Event Date 21/1/2025
Author: Elia Quijano Quinones

Description (Physical description)
One spindle whorls with relief decoration, bichrome red ware. Truncated triangle cross-section; a band in black and undulating lines in black on buff on flat side. Zoomorphic figures depicting two full bodies and two heads on its curved side.
Event Date 21/1/2025
Author: Elia Quijano Quinones