Peg Top

71-18-71C

From: Mexico (Central America)

Curatorial Section: Historic

Object Number 71-18-71C
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Mexican
Provenience Mexico (Central America)
Section Historic
Materials Wood | Steel | Plastic
Description

One of 3 wood peg-tops, assumed to be from Mexico (only one with legible imprint). button top to body, steel peg that may have been a nail. C is decorated with white plastic (?) insert on upper surface showing vari-colored reflectors. The upper third of the body has a deep grove in which 3 white plastic inserts as separators. The intent may have been to enhance sound effects

Credit Line Gift of Smithsonian Institution, 1971

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