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Toy3408/2

Wooden toy truck carved from tree branch with bark attached. Carved to a point at the front. The front seat is covered with a cloth canopy, and there is a flat bed at back with four roped together vertical pegs. The steering wheel and tires are all cross-sections of branch. The wheels are threaded on axels with a small wooden peg on either end. There are two bumpers extending from the back of the truck.

Culture
Nepali
Material
wood and fibre
Made in
Pokhara, Nepal
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Toy3408/1 a-b

Wooden toy car (part a) with trailer (part b) carved from tree branch with bark attached. Car tapers to a point at the front, and has a front seat and back seat. The steering wheel and tires are all cross-sections of branch. The wheels of the car and trailer are threaded on axels with a small wooden peg on either end. The two-wheeled trailer has a storage compartment on top created by eight vertical pegs. The trailer attaches to the car with a hitch and peg.

Culture
Nepali
Material
wood
Made in
Pokhara, Nepal
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Toy3243/1

Wooden child's toy. Consists of a wood handle with a point at top, attached by a string to a wooden piece shaped like a small barrel with a hole at bottom. The handle is made of unfinished wood, with a thick white cotton string passing between handle and barrel. Barrel is painted with encircling stripes of blue, yellow, green, grey and red, and heavily lacquered to a high shine.

Culture
Mexican
Material
wood, cotton fibre, paint and lacquer
Made in
Mexico
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Toy3243/3

Wooden child's toy. Consists of a wood handle with a point at top, attached by a string to a wooden piece shaped like a small barrel with a hole at bottom. The handle is made of unfinished wood, with a thick white cotton string passing between handle and barrel. Barrel is painted with encircling stripes black, red, orange, dark green, grey and dark blue, and heavily lacquered to a high shine.

Culture
Mexican
Material
wood, cotton fibre, paint and lacquer
Made in
Mexico
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Toy3243/4

Wooden child's toy. Consists of a wood handle with a point at top, attached by a string to a wooden piece shaped like a small barrel with a hole at bottom. The handle is made of unfinished wood, with a thick white cotton string passing between handle and barrel. Barrel is painted with encircling stripes of red, silver, dark green, gold and black, and heavily lacquered to a high shine.

Culture
Mexican
Material
wood, cotton fibre, paint and lacquer
Made in
Mexico
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Toy3243/2

Wooden child's toy. Consists of a wood handle with a point at top, attached by a string to a wooden piece shaped like a small barrel with a hole at bottom. The handle is made of unfinished wood, with a thin white cotton string passing between handle and barrel. Barrel is painted with encircling stripes of burgundy, gold, pink, black, green and dark blue, and heavily lacquered to a high shine.

Culture
Mexican
Material
wood, cotton fibre, paint and lacquer
Made in
Mexico
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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toy bow and arrow1927.1734 . 176388.1-2

« The stave of a toy bow was made with a crooked knife froma single piece of birchwood and lacks backing. Both the back and front are slightly convex and the sides are flat. Paired V-shaped notches at the sides are cut near the end of each horn for attachment of the bow string which is made of commercial two ply cord (fig. 31). Associated with this bow is a toy arrow, the shaft of which is circular in cross section and made of birchwood. The proximal end of the shaft is flattened on opposite sides and a notch is cut in the end at right angles to the flattened surfaces; there are no feathers. This type of arrow, which would have been used primarily for game birds such as ptarmigan and spruce grouse, had no attached point. The distal end of the shaft widens to form an enlarged striking surface (fig. 3m). In the past, the neighboring Mistassini Indians used the bow and arrow for hunting caribou as well as a variety of small game animals and birds (Rogers, 1967, p. 67). Small bows and arrows were used in a divination game for predicting the number of otters to be killed on a future hunt (Speck, 1930, pp. 429-430, fig. 109; 1935, p. 198). A label in Speck's handwriting attached to the bow indicates that it was collected at the Kiskisink settlement. » Vanstone, James W. "The Speck Collection of Montagnais Material Culture from the Lower St. Lawrence Drainage, Quebec." Fieldiana. Anthropology. New Series, No. 5 (October 29, 1982), p.7, fig 3I et m (p.31).

Culture
Ilnu, Montagnais and Innu
Material
not stated on card
Made in
Pekuakami, Lac Saint-Jean, Lake St. John, Labrador, Canada
Holding Institution
The Field Museum
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Toy3205/5

Toy parrot. Bird stands balanced on both legs and a long thick tail, with a thick torso and no discernible wings. It is completely covered with glass seed beads sewn to an under-layer of fabric in zigzag patterning on torso and diagonal lines on tail, in colours of white, blue, red, green and orange. Face is white with red beak and eyes. Around neck and along top of tail are small tassels in a multitude of colours.

Culture
Maldhari: Mutwa
Material
glass, wool fibre and silk fibre ?
Made in
Kutch, Gujarat, India
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Toy3205/4

Toy horse. Animal has a long neck, thin legs, and a long body. It is completely covered with glass seed beads sewn to a layer of yellow silk in criss-cross patterns on the neck, and diagonal lines on legs and body, in colours of white, blue, red, yellow, green and orange. Face is white with red halter and tail is multicoloured with a tuft of purple wool at tip. Mane and reins are constructed of a line of beading with small tassels in blue, pink, yellow, grey and purple.

Culture
Maldhari: Mutwa
Material
glass, silk fibre and wool fibre
Made in
Kutch, Gujarat, India
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Toy3205/3

Toy elephant. Animal has a thick trunk, relatively small head and ears, long legs, and a thin body. It is completely covered with glass seed beads sewn to a layer of blue silk in criss-cross patterns of white filled with green and red. Face is white with blue ears and eyes, and small red tusks emerge. Curved trunk and legs are decorated with diagonal lines of beads in red, green and white, with a ring of yellow at trunk’s tip. Tail is beaded similarly, with a tuft of light purple wool at end.

Culture
Maldhari: Mutwa
Material
glass, silk fibre and wool fibre
Made in
Kutch, Gujarat, India
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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