Period:Unknown Production date:2ndC BC(late)-2ndC(late) (circa)
Materials:wood
Technique:carved
Dimensions:Height: 25.40 centimetres
Description:
Wooden apparatus of unknown usage. It consists of two upright pieces of wood which are held in place by two parallel cross-pieces tenoned into them. Between those pieces is a roller into which a slit has been cut. Stein (1921a, 771) suggests that the apparatus was used in connection with weaving or spinning. Fur further information see curator’s comment.
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![图片[1]-tool/implement(?); reeler(?) BM-MAS.747-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Unknown/43/mid_01144242_001.jpg)
![图片[2]-tool/implement(?); reeler(?) BM-MAS.747-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Unknown/43/mid_01144249_001.jpg)
![图片[3]-tool/implement(?); reeler(?) BM-MAS.747-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Unknown/43/mid_01144271_001.jpg)
Comments:Dr Eric Trombert (Paris) suggests that this apparatus was not used for reeling cotton. The cultivation of cotton does not appear in northwest China (eg at Turfan, which was a renowned cotton centre) until the 5th-6th century AD. The association with cotton reeling was suggested to Stein by someone living in the early 20th century; this reeler may have been used for different fibres in earlier times. For further details on cotton in northwest China, see Eric Trombert: ‘Une trajectoire d’ouest en est sur la route de la soie: la diffusion du coton dans l’Asie centrale sinisee (6e-10e siecles)’, in “La Persia e l’Asia centrale da Alessandro al X secolo”, Rome: Academia Nazionale dei Lincei, Atti dei convegni Lincei 127, 1996, pp.205-227.Stein, 1921: p.661: “That the men stationed on guard had, after the Chinese fashion still to be observed nowadays, employed their leisure in homely occupations was made clear here by a variety of implements, Among them may be classed the wooden apparatus, T.VIII.001 (Plate LII), roughly made, but in perfect preservation, which according to the information of Tila Bai, my observant Turki follower, resembles an instrument used about Yarkand for reeling cotton.” [footnote 10: “My notes record an exactly corresponding find having been made at T.VI.b.”]
Materials:wood
Technique:carved
Dimensions:Height: 25.40 centimetres
Description:
Wooden apparatus of unknown usage. It consists of two upright pieces of wood which are held in place by two parallel cross-pieces tenoned into them. Between those pieces is a roller into which a slit has been cut. Stein (1921a, 771) suggests that the apparatus was used in connection with weaving or spinning. Fur further information see curator’s comment.
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Comments:Dr Eric Trombert (Paris) suggests that this apparatus was not used for reeling cotton. The cultivation of cotton does not appear in northwest China (eg at Turfan, which was a renowned cotton centre) until the 5th-6th century AD. The association with cotton reeling was suggested to Stein by someone living in the early 20th century; this reeler may have been used for different fibres in earlier times. For further details on cotton in northwest China, see Eric Trombert: ‘Une trajectoire d’ouest en est sur la route de la soie: la diffusion du coton dans l’Asie centrale sinisee (6e-10e siecles)’, in “La Persia e l’Asia centrale da Alessandro al X secolo”, Rome: Academia Nazionale dei Lincei, Atti dei convegni Lincei 127, 1996, pp.205-227.Stein, 1921: p.661: “That the men stationed on guard had, after the Chinese fashion still to be observed nowadays, employed their leisure in homely occupations was made clear here by a variety of implements, Among them may be classed the wooden apparatus, T.VIII.001 (Plate LII), roughly made, but in perfect preservation, which according to the information of Tila Bai, my observant Turki follower, resembles an instrument used about Yarkand for reeling cotton.” [footnote 10: “My notes record an exactly corresponding find having been made at T.VI.b.”]
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