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VOL. 25. SALEM: JAN., FEB., MAR., 1893. Nos. 1, 2, 3. 



A CURIOUS AINO TOY. 



BY EDWARD S. MORSE. 



Takashiro Matsura of Tokio, an antiquarian of some 

 note and author of several works on Yezo, the Ainos and 

 Japanese Antiquities, has a miscellaneous collection of 

 old things, comprising stone objects, old Buddhists' desks 

 and specimens of bows, clubs and other objects from Yezo. 



FIG. i. 



In this collection I found a curious wooden toy brought 

 from the Ishikari valley, Yezo, and believed to be an Aino 

 toy. This toy was in the form of a bird on wheels (figs. 

 1, 2), Such an extraordinary object, as one provided 



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