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
Space/Place
Angola
Africa
Rights
© The Powell-Cotton Trust