A CURIOUS AINO TOY. 6 



be inserted. The toy bore all the appearance of having 

 been made by the Ainos. Its rough vigorous make, the 

 manner of cutting the lines for decoration, the clumsy, ir- 

 regular wheels, all precluded its having been made by the 

 Japanese, though the idea of wheels so foreign to savagery 

 must have been derivative and could have come from the 

 Japanese, but this form of toy I do not remember having 

 seen among the innumerable kinds of toys in Japan. 



It was not until several years after that I found another 

 bird toy on wheels. This specimen was in the collections 



FIG. 3. 



of the Ethnological Museum in Berlin. Recalling the 

 Aino toy I made a hasty sketch for comparison. The form 

 of the bird differed somewhat in having a longer neck, a 

 better defined head and the wheels of the toy being circu- 

 lar. This specimen was labelled Yakuts, Yena, /Siberia. 

 Unfortunately I made no measurements of the specimen 

 though the rough sketch here presented (fig. 3) gives its 

 general appearance in outline. My attention was not again 



