4 A CURIOUS AINO TOY. 



called to another example of this toy iintil I fouiid one fig- 

 ured by Mr. W. M. Flinders Petrie, in bis interestiiig work 

 describing bis exoavations and dlscoveries in Hawara, 

 Beabmu, and Arsinoe, in Fayum, Egypt (Pbite XIII, Fig. 

 21). In tbe cemetery of Hawara, dating back not biter 

 than tbe first Century of our era, be found a misceUaneous 

 coUectionconsistingof nunibers of workmen'stools, bronze 

 knives, wooden lock-bolts, etc. Associated witb tbese 

 various ol)jects he found a wooden toy in tbe form of a bird 

 on wbeels. Its form more nearly approacbes tbat of tbe 

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



Fig. 4. 



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

 througb tbe toy vertically, as in tbe Yezo specimen, thougb 

 in tbe Egyptian specimen this hole was in tbe neck and 

 not in tbe tail. Tbe object is now preserved in tbe Ash- 

 molean Museum, Oxford. 



Tbe three wooden toys above cited, thougb 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 bim as "very curious." 



This toy might naturally have originated among a civil- 

 ized people like tbe Egyptians, wbo portray wbeeled char- 

 iots in their earlyrock sculpture. Tbe Egyptian chariots 

 are figured with wbeels of four and eigbt spokes. The 



