The exposition of the Museum of Local Lore presents two ornamented toys-ducks made of gray clay which date back to the 12-13th centuries. One of the two fragmented figures, found in Polotsk in the 1980s, has a clearly delineated geometric pattern in the form of a zigzag. The second duck figure is a toy rattle. A small object rolls inside the hollow body and makes a sound when shaken. The rattle toy is decorated with semicircular, C-shaped indentations and has the mark of an ancient master in the form of a four-pointed cross inscribed in a circle. The find was made in 1995 in Polotsk during the excavations of S.V. Tarasov on the Upper Castle. Both toys are made schematically and stylized. At the same time, thanks to its sound, the toy rattle was a sacred object with a certain ritual meaning.
