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The boy with a spinning top
Painting by Jean Siméon Chardin (1699-1779). The boy is playing with one of the conventional, hand-held wooden tops.

Three spinning wooden tops. Stephen Graham Photography.

Spinning top. Papua New Guinea. Before 1931. Spinning tops have been played with by children all over the world. This top is made from a pierced coconut shell on a wooden shaft. It has a hole in it, so that it hums as it spins. Pitt Rivers Museum, South Parks Road Oxford.

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