Yoyo top made from dried gourd, bamboo and string

Item

Title

Yoyo top made from dried gourd, bamboo and string

Creator

Creator Unrecorded

Subject

Toy
Toy & Game

Description

Yoyo top [also known as kamuchaila] made from dried gourd, bamboo and string. Gourd discs threaded on a stalk, this encased in a reed with hole in centre through which passes the string attached to a central stalk. Pull string and hold outer reed casing, stalk rotates with umbrella like gourd at top. This specimen has additional discs of thick gourd - one at base of stalk and a second above the original disc at top. According to previous cataloguing information, this toy would have been made and used by young boys of the Umbundu people.[FHM25/09/2019]

Publisher

Making African Connections

Date

c.1930

Type

PhysicalObject

Format

Gourd; Plant
Dried
H = 190mm

Identifier

ETH.ANG2.1349
A36/1349

Source

Antoinette and Diana Powell-Cotton
1936

Space/Place

Angola
Africa

Rights

© The Powell-Cotton Trust