Replica Gitksan spindle - a photo on Flickriver

            The peoples of the Northwest Coast spun the locally available wild mountain goat wool, which could then be made into the dance blankets called Chilkat blankets, and into woven burden straps.  This spindle was made from the measurements of a spindle in the Canadian Museum of Civilization collected by Marius Barbeau in the 1920's.  The whorl is birch wood 8.5 cm diameter, planed by my friend Stephen Tufford to 9mm thickness, and the shaft is 62 cm long, shaped from a hardwood dowel.  Spinning is done in a roughly horizontal position by rolling the base of the shaft down the calf...reconstructed from several archival photos of Gitksan women spinning, with help from my friend Val Celuzak.
   

Taken on: August 30, 2010

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Camera: Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XTi, f/8.0, 2 sec, 50mm, ISO 200 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XTi
Aperture:	f/8.0
Exposure Time:	2
Focal Length:	50mm
ISO:	200
Exposure Bias:	-2/3 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Mode:	Auto
White Balance:	Auto
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Adobe Photoshop CS4 Macintosh
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