Bidspirit auction | Guna ”Pirbi” Weaving Spindle Shafts

Guna ”Pirbi” Weaving Spindle Shafts & Fishing Spear - Six long slender wooden implements loosely bound together by the original strip of field fabric.  A nice study lot representing mid-20th-century domestic technology and textile techniques from the Guna (Kuna/Cuna) culture of Panama. Selling the group together ”as found”. 6 items, 22” to 27” long, natural hardwood.   One of the textile rods has its original field tag reading: PIRBI from MORMAQUE-TUPU. 18 Mar. 69. Provenance: From the private estate collection of Captain Kit S. Kapp (1926–2013), noted American explorer, ethnologist, and cartographer. Gathered during his historic maritime and ethnographic expeditions to the San Blas Islands and Darién region of Panama between 1961 and 1972.