Pitt Rivers Museum Anthropology and World Archaology

 

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Mechanical toy

Japan/Burma

 

The donor's aunt worked in Burma as a nurse in Burma in the 1920s, and may have brought the toy back to Britain

Given to the Museum in 1974 by Professor Gurney

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Mechanical toy, Japan/Burma

Toys with moving parts date back to ancient times. This man-and-drum toy was probably made in Japan in the nineteenth century. When a handle at the back of the box is turned, he beats the drum with each hand alternately and turns his head from side to side.

View database record 1974.2.1