High Striker Mallet
date: label: date made
content: before 1977
notes: label: Description
content: Mallet used in <i>High Striker </i> carnival games. In the game, a player hits a lever with the mallet, sending a puck up an attached vertical tower. A test of strength, the player hopes to strike the lever with enough force to have the puck to reach the tower's top, causing a bell to ring.
label: Description
content: The mallet has an oval wooden handle with a barrel shaped head. Iron bands wrap around the head's circumference.It was featured in the Cooper-Hewitt's inagural <i>MAN transFORMS </i> exhibition in 1976.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: web subject
content: Entertainment
label: Subject
content: Carnivals
label: Subject
content: Amusement Parks
label: Subject
content: Games
setName: label: See more items in
content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: J.J. Fuller Manufacturing Company
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1977.0550.01
label: accession number
content: 1977.0550
label: catalog number
content: 1977.0550.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Mallet
label: Object Name
content: mallet, carnival
label: Object Name
content: high striker mallet (carneval)
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 33 3/4 in x 8 in x 1 1/2 in; 85.725 cm x 20.32 cm x 3.81 cm