Chanukah Musical Yo-Yo: Museum Object and Cultural History
Chanukah Musical Yo-Yo: Object Name: yo-yo. Physical Description: plastic (overall material). Physical Description: string (part material).
The object in the museum catalogue
This blue plastic yo-yo was made by Rite Lite LTD in the 1990s. It has a golden menorah on the front and the text “Happy Chanukah.” The yo-yo's retail packaging proclaims “Lights up & Plays Draydel (sic) Song!”
Materials, dates and provenance
- Object Name: yo-yo
- Physical Description: plastic (overall material)
- Physical Description: string (part material)
- Physical Description: cardboard (packaging material)
- Measurements: overall: 6 3/4 in x 3 1/2 in x 1 1/2 in; 17.145 cm x 8.89 cm x 3.81 cm
- Subject: Children
- Subject: Sports and Recreation, general
- ID Number: 2007.0158.04
- accession number: 2007.0158
- catalog number: 2007.0158.04
- Credit Line: Gift of Stuart F. Crump
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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