Humming Top

21950

From: United States of America | California (State) | San Francisco (California)

Curatorial Section: Asian

Object Number 21950
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Chinese
Provenience United States of America | California (State) | San Francisco (California)
Date Made 19th Century
Section Asian
Materials Wood
Description

Humming top. Hollow wooden cylinder with piece cut out from one end to the other. One end missing, the other curving in to the middle where there is a hole with a stick sticking through which pierces a wooden disc which holds it in position in cylinder. Stick extends past either end of cylinder. Stick painted green, disc yellow with a green center. Cylinder is red, green, pink and peeled yellow stripes.

Credit Line Gift of John Wanamaker, 1900

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