Hunter and Dog String Toy

NameString Toy; Kinetic Toy

Artist Artist Not Recorded

Datec. 1958

Place madeMolinos, Junín, Peru, South America

MediumWood, paint, string

Dimensions18 × 12 3/16 × 1 9/16 in. (45.7 × 31 × 4 cm)

Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, gift of the Girard Foundation Collection, A.1979.44.203

Object numberA.1979.44.203

Collections

Andean Folk Art

DescriptionCut out wood figures, jointed limbs, painted. Attached to wood base, hunter holds spear, wears headdress, and faces running dog; bottom block of wood attached to string, dropped or rotated weight of wood block causes limb of hunter and dog to move.