Polyhedron of molded glass, 33 facets, numbered, for fortune-telling. 1 inch diam.
Donor:
Eugene R. Prince
Collection place:
United States
Verbatim coll. place:
U.S.A. (historic) made in Czechoslovakia
Culture or time period:
United States Historic
Collector:
Eugene R. Prince
Collection date:
1900
Materials:
Glass (material)
Object type:
ethnography
Function:
5.1 Religion and Divination: Objects and garb associated with practices reflecting submission, devotion, obedience, and service to supernatural agencies
Context of use:
used for amateur fortune-telling, rolled like a die and the top numbered read from an accompanying sheet of correspondingly numbered anguries. mostly a children plaything from about 1900-1940
Department:
Nonnative US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
diameter 2.54 centimeters
Comment:
see 6-19288 a Hellenistic Egyptian 20 sided polyhedral die