. Bulletin of the Essex Institute. Essex Institute; Natural history; genealogy. 2 A CURIOUS AINO TOY. with wheels, made by savages, led me to make a somewhat careful sketch of it. The object bore the marks of con- siderable ai^e. Mr. Matsura believed it to be two hundred years old, upon what grounds I did not clearly learn. The body of the bird had a uniform thickness of 30mm ; apparently as if it had been cut out of a board or plank. The head and neck only were roughly modelled, tapering from the base of the neck which was 18mm in thickness to half that thickness at the end of the bill. The e
. Bulletin of the Essex Institute. Essex Institute; Natural history; genealogy. 2 A CURIOUS AINO TOY. with wheels, made by savages, led me to make a somewhat careful sketch of it. The object bore the marks of con- siderable ai^e. Mr. Matsura believed it to be two hundred years old, upon what grounds I did not clearly learn. The body of the bird had a uniform thickness of 30mm ; apparently as if it had been cut out of a board or plank. The head and neck only were roughly modelled, tapering from the base of the neck which was 18mm in thickness to half that thickness at the end of the bill. The extreme length of the toy was 195mm. The back and sides of the body had a series of curved lines cut upon their surfaces to represent feathers, Fig. 2. an area (indicated by the dotted lines in the figure; hid- den by the wheels, being left plain. There was no hole or constriction in the neck to which a string might be at- tached for the purpose of dragging the toy; in the tail, however, was a small hole running through from above, evidently for this purpose. In this case the toy must have been dragged backward. The wheels were thick and clumsy, and irregularly ovate rather than circular. This form of the wheel would cause the bird to hop up and down when being dragged. The axle holding the wheels passed through the body near the centre and consisted of a sim- ple wooden pin having a thick head at one end and a per- foration at the opposite end into which a small pin could. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Essex Institute. 1n. Salem, Mass. , Essex Institute
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