Kinetic push toy
date: label: Accession Date
content: 7 Nov 2019
label: Collection Date
content: 1990
name: label: Collector
content: Laurel B. De Aguilar
label: Donor Name
content: Mona Gavigan
notes: label: Notes
content: Wire sculpture, two boys on a 4-wheeler with a handle on the back. The boys wear cotton clothing and paper top hats. Their hands are on metal lids. Presumably if one pushes the sculpture the boys hands beat the lids.
label: Notes
content: From donor: Kinetic push toy made by young boy, Chewa, Malawi. Wire, cloth, lids, paper. Field collected ca 1990 in Malawi by Laurel Birch de Aguilar... Collector advised this toy was created by a twelve-year old boy. Delightful composition with two figures seated on flat-wheeled cart of bent wire connected with thin copper wire; each wearing top hat cut from cardboard beer containers, colorful suits and wide ties of imported cloth commemorating Malawi with white dots on blue, yellow lions. When pushed by handle on back, wheels move legs and looped arms beat imported metal lids.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 26 Sep 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Malawi, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Chewa
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2077558
label: USNM Number
content: E436280-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Toy
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 48 cm
label: Width
content: 17 cm
label: Height
content: 53 cm