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. |
| Length | 27 cm |
| Width | 6 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of John Wanamaker, 1900 |
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