Amulet or toy, horse head of paper mache on a bamboo stick, painted pink with eye and mane in black. [El.B 18/11/2013]

Collection type: Object
Description: Amulet or toy, horse head of paper mache on a bamboo stick, painted pink with eye and mane in black. [El.B 18/11/2013]
Geographical reference: Japan
Asia > Eastern Asia > Japan
Cultural groups: Japanese
Person: Field collector Walter Leo Hildburgh; PRM source Wellcome Institute; PRM source Wellcome Historical Medical Museum
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1985
Date collected: by 1985
Acquisition information: Loaned: 1985
Materials and processes: Material Papier-Mâché Paper Plant, Material Pigment, Material Bamboo Plant, Process Painted
Dimensions: Width: max 51 mm, Length: max 190 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1985.53.664 Other numbers: R 13076/ 1936 2262
Research and responses: The inscription on this object was transcribed and translated by Fusa McLynn who volunteered at the Museum in 2013 as: Possibly in the lower part of the head is the stylized character, ‘Uma’ (horse) *Similar to 1985.53.665. [FB 11/03/2015]
Associated publications: Illustrated in colour in the pamphlet accompanying the Reading Room displays at the Welcome Collection with the caption “Horse head Papier mache and bamboo Japan RRa0236/1985.53.664 Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford. This children’s toy was attached to a doorway, or hung in a shop, for good fortune.” [FB 15/8/2016]