DepartmentLatin America

Carpenters String Toy

NameString Toy; Kinetic Toy

Artist Artist Not Recorded

Datec. 1958

Place madeMolinos, Junín, Peru, South America

MediumWood, paint, string

Dimensions7 1/16 × 13 3/8 × 3 11/16 in. (18 × 34 × 9.4 cm)

Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, gift of the Girard Foundation Collection, A.1979.44.204

Object numberA.1979.44.204

Collections

Andean Folk Art

DescriptionCut out figures, attached to base and jointed. One man holds vertical saw, other man holds pick, strings attached at arms, strings attached to block which hangs beneath, weight of block causes men to raise arms and move tools.

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