TATÁ

The tatà was a wooden carved animal with wheels typical of farm communities and it was the favourite toy of children living in the Val d’Aosta region in Italy. This unusual name, tatà, was borrowed from “taa-ta”, a word used by children to describe the sound made by the wheels of these toys. Horses with wheels are toys that reach far back into time, as testified by the findings from pre-Roman times in the Como area. To date, the Museum has 16 pieces of this type of toy and obviously they are all horses.