Spinning Top
16187
From: Johore | Malay Peninsula
Curatorial Section: Oceanian
| Object Number | 16187 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Johore | Malay Peninsula |
| Section | Oceanian |
| Materials | Wood |
| Description | Heavy hardwood, dark brown.Turned on lathe, with resulting grooves. Almost disc-shaped, with flat circumference, rounded knob on top, longish fat point projecting from bottom. Berembang jantong. Originally two hanks of string with tops 16184-16190. |
| Length | 10 cm |
| Width | 9 cm |
| Credit Line | Purchased from the Sultan of Johore (through his agent Rounsevelle Wildman), 1893 |
| Other Number | 4 - Other Number |
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