Basket And Contents (Peru), 11th–14th century

Outer basket of plaited rushes partly covered with coarse undyed cotton cloth and a plaited multicolored wool cord. Inner basket of plaited rushes with cloth covering made with double warps and containing: four cotton fiber cones, one small loom with cotton warp and cotton weft on a shuttle, one shed tied to a stick; one wound with wool and cotton yarns and a tassel; two full thread holders, each made of crossed sticks; sixteen thorn spindles, each painted and with decorated clay bead; nine thorn spindles painted (four of these with hollow stem, substitute for bead); two long stem thread-holders with bead at each end wound with wool yarn; six pieces of stem wound with cotton; one long hank of undyed cotton yarn.