4 A CURIOUS AINO TOT. 



called to another example of this toy until I found one fig- 

 ured by Mr. W. M. Flinders Petrie, in his interesting work 

 describing his excavations and discoveries in Hawara, 

 Beahmu, and Arsinoe, in Fayura, Egypt (Plate XIII, Fig. 

 21). In the cemetery of Hawara, dating back not later 

 than the first century of our era, he found a miscellaneous 

 collection consisting of numbers of workmen's tools, bronze 

 knives, wooden lock-bolts, etc. Associated with these 

 various objects he found a wooden toy in the form of a bird 

 on wheels. Its form more nearly approaches that of the 

 Yezo specimen. It is made from a flat piece of wood, and 



FIG. 4. 



a hole, through which a string was probably tied, runs 

 through the toy vertically, as in the Yezo specimen, though 

 in the Egyptian specimen this hole was in the neck and 

 not in the tail. The object is now preserved in the Ash- 

 molean Museum, Oxford. 



The three wooden toys above cited, though very sim- 

 ple, are identical in construction. Are they identical also 

 in origin? The ancient specimen exhumed at Hawara by 

 Mr. Petrie is pronounced by him as "very curious." 



This toy might naturally have originated among a civil- 

 ized people like the Egyptians, who portray wheeled char- 

 iots in their early rock sculpture. The Egyptian chariots 

 are figured with wheels of four and eight spokes. The 



