| Fig. 349. TERRA-COTTA SPINDLE-WHORL. Neolithic or Bronze Age. Swiss lake dwellings. Cat. No. 190642, U. S. N. M. | Fig. 350. TERRA-COTTA SPINDLE-WHORL. Swiss lake dwellings. Cat. No. 100647, U. S. N. M. |
Italy.—Figs. [351], [352], and [353] show terra-cotta spindle-whorls from Orvieto, Italy, 78 miles north from Rome. Figs. [354] and [355] represent spindle-whorls from Corneto, Italy, 63 miles north from Rome. As remarked above, they have been chosen to represent the different kinds. There are thousands of these whorls found in Italy. In the Archæological Exposition at Turin, 1884, the number was so great that they were twined about the columns, thereby providing a place of storage as well as a place of display.
Figs. 351, 352, and 353.
PREHISTORIC TERRA-COTTA SPINDLE-WHORLS.
Orvieto, Italy. Cat. Nos. 101671, 101672, U. S. N. M.
Wurtemburg.—Dr. Charles Rau procured for, and there is now in, the U. S. National Museum a spindle ([fig. 356]) with its whorl which had been in use for spinning from 1860 to 1870, and which he obtained in Wurtemburg, Germany, from the woman who had used it.
