Toy truck
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Object Details
- Undetermined artist
- Label Text
- What kind of toys do you have? Are they copies of real things?
- African children play with many of the same types of toys that you do. They make some themselves out of materials they find.
- Description
- Toy truck of flat pith like slats forming a closed cab, open bed, four wheels.
- Provenance
- Volkmar Wentzel, Washington, DC, -- to 1980
- Exhibition History
- BIG/small, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., January 17-July 23, 2006
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- Credit Line
- Gift of Volkmar Wentzel
- Late 20th century
- Object number
- 80-8-4
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- Sculpture
- Medium
- Plant fiber, cane, reed
- Dimensions
- H x W x D: 17 x 15.6 x 30.7 cm (6 11/16 x 6 1/8 x 12 1/16 in.)
- Geography
- Inhambane, Mozambique
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- National Museum of African Art
- Topic
- male
- Record ID
- nmafa_80-8-4
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Usage conditions apply
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ys70628e376-cd73-4b8f-9c9b-12e0ba97e10f
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