- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Spinning top with large oblong brown nut shell with sounding hole cut in the side, perforated with a sharpened stick. [ASh [OPS move] 02/06/2016]
- Geographical reference
- Cultural groups
- Carib
- Person
- Field collector Cambridge Expedition to Guyana
- PRM source Cambridge Expedition to Guyana
- PRM source Peter Gatrell
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1971
- Date collected
- 1971
- Acquisition information
- Purchased: 1972
- Materials and processes
- Material Plant Nut-shell, Material Wood Plant, Process Perforated
- Dimensions
- Length: max 117 mm, Depth: max 35 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1972.14.18
Search terms: Toy and Game, Spinning-top
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