Description (Labels & Markings)
Old museum label adhered to object: 'Diorite Spindle Atatlan Mexico 1904'
Event Date
Author: Diana Serediuc

Context (Analysis)
Note on card by Louis C.G. Clarke: 'The same types appear in West Africa.'
Event Date 1930
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Acquisition Details)
Register entry for 1930.1136 notes 'Presented by the Lord Revelstoke in memory of Sir Hans Gadow who made the collection', and whose acquisition is subsequently connected to the whole of Revelstokes' donation, 1930.1136-1246.
Event Date 1930
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card for 1930.1213 [A-D]: 'Four stone objects. Round, each with a very small perforation at centre--bored from each side.'

Event Date 1930
Author: maa

Context (Display)
Annual Report of the Faculty Board of Archaeology and Anthropology, 28 April 1930, n.p., states: "In a show-case at the other end of the [Andrews] gallery the greater part of the collection made by the late Dr Gadow in Southern Mexico, and presented to the Museum in memory of him by Lord Revelstoke, has been placed on temporary exhibition."
Event Date 1930
Author: Benjamina Dadzie

Description (Labels & Markings)
Labelled variously diorite, Atatlan, Mexico, spindle.
Event Date 4/11/2003
Author: Diana Serediuc

Description (Physical description)
White grey annular shaped diorite stone with a conical profile, possibly a fishing net weight or loom weight. Pierced at the centre, bored from each sides.
Event Date 18/3/2025
Author: Diana Serediuc