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Toy (ABDUA:9752)

AssociatedAssociated with Margaret Hardie Hasluck (Elgin, Scotland, 1885 - 1948)

Object NameToy

MediumWood, paper

ClassificationsToys and Games

AcquisitionUniversity of Aberdeen Museums & Special Collections.

CopyrightImages reproduced with the permission of University of Aberdeen Museums & Special Collections.

LocationOn Display - Provost Skene's House

Object numberX000665

About MeThese objects were all collected by Margaret Hasluck during the time she lived in Europe. The objects here mainly come from Albania and Macedonia, Greece. Margaret sent these objects, together with many others, to the University of Aberdeen during the 1920s.

Margaret wrote that the dancing bird was “made by a Catholic mountaineer from Albania. It dances as [the] man plays [a] Luhuta – a simple mountain lyre. A thread attached to the player’s right hand little finger makes the bird dance.”

For more information about this object, which belongs to the collection of the University of Aberdeen Museums & Special Collections, visit:

https://calm.abdn.ac.uk/museums/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=ABDUA%3a9752

Exhibitions

Provost Skene's House