Small foot-powered wheel fashioned in four sections of oak, with sixteen spokes, attached to slanted rectangular base by simple turned stiles; three simple turned legs support the whole; missing a distaff and spindle.
spinning wheels
maple (wood)
oak (wood)
maple (wood)
Oak
Maple
WHEEL, SPINNING
Original to Rundlet-May House (Portsmouth, N.H.),
Unknown
35.125 x 37 x 22.375 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Ralph May
1971.774
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