AR4. TOY

 

Toy: Abacus

Description: mathematical device; used to add numbers before

 calculators were invented

Year:

Donated Date: July 4, 1994

Donor:

Located:

Accession Number: 994.338.1

 

Toy: dolls

Description: three dolls (13cm, 9cm, 9cm) in plastic case.

 Porcelain heads, composition bodies.  From Hildegard Fast Schmidt,

 half sister of Edith Tiessen.

Year: probably brought from Russia, c 1920

Donated Date: November 22, 1994

Donor: Edith Isaak Tiessen

Located: display

Accession Number: 994.28.1

 

Toy: Horse-pulled cart

Description: horse-pulled four wheeled cart.  Reddish brown cart,

 dark brown horse.

Year:

Donated Date: November 1, 1993

Donor: John  Peters

Located: storage box # 993.314

Accession Number: 993.314.4

 

Toy: horse pulled ladder wagon

Description: Two horses pulling ladder wagon.  Horses painted dark

 brown, wagon painted medium brown.

Year:

Donated Date: November 1, 1993

Donor: John Peters

Located: storage box # 993.314

Accession Number: 993.314.3

 

Toy: Horse-pulled ladder wagon

Description: Two dark brown work horses pulling ladder wagons

Year:

Donated Date: November 1, 1993

Donor: John Peters

Located: display shelf

Accession Number: 993.314.7

 

Toy: horse-pulled sleigh

Description: Brown painted horse and sleigh

Year:

Donated Date: November 1, 1993

Donor: John Peters

Located: display shelf

Accession Number: 993.314.6

 

Toy: Horse-pulled wagon with man

Description: man on wagon pulled by team of horses

Year:

Donated Date: November 1, 1993

Donor: John Peters

Located: display shelf

Accession Number: 993.314.8

 

Toy: man in horse-pulled wagon

Description: man in wagon pulled by horse on wheels, wood painted

 brown colour.

Year:

Donated Date: November 1, 1993

Donor: John Peters

Located: storage box # 993.314

Accession Number: 993.314.2

 

Toy: man on horse

Description: Folk art carving.  Wooden man on wooden wheeled horse.

  Brown paint, mottled harness.

Year:

Donated Date: November 1, 1993

Donor: John Peters, father of Evelyn Neufeld

Located: storage box #993.314

Accession Number: 993.314.1

 

Toy: Mathematical game

Description: Mathematical game made by Jacob Toews for the Martens

 children's first Christmas in Canada.

Year: 1925

Donated Date: May 1993

Donor:

Located: archival box

Accession Number: 993.248.1

 

Toy: Rattle (Kruckibeetschleef)

Description: Hand-painted gourd rattle replica of rattles made in

 Russia for babies.  Brown, green, white painted flower design.

 Known in Low German as "Kruckibeetschleef".  Explanation paper

accompanies the rattle.

Year: replica made in 1988

Donated Date: August 4, 1992

Donor: Margaret Rempel

Located: archival box

Accession Number: 992.79.4

 

Toy: Early Tractor

Description: Red painted early wooden tractor

Year:

Donated Date: November 1, 1993

Donor: John Peters

Located: storage box #993.314

Accession Number: 993.314.5