Gambling bone
- Museum number:
- 1-9985
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21010009985
- Alternate number:
- 94 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.216, Acc.217, Acc.218, Acc.220, Acc.222, Acc.226, Acc.227, Acc.229, Acc.230, Acc.231, Acc.234, Acc.235, Acc.236, Acc.237, Acc.238, Acc.241, Acc.242, Acc.243, Acc.244, Acc.245, Acc.246, Acc.249, Acc.250, Acc.251, and Acc.254
- Description:
- Leg-bone of deer partly worked and polished, to be used as a gambling bone.
- Donor:
- Phoebe Apperson Hearst and Samuel A. Barrett
- Collection place:
- Rich Gulch, Calaveras County, California
- Verbatim coll. place:
- California; Calaveras; Rich Gulch
- Culture or time period:
- Eastern Miwok
- Collector:
- Samuel A. Barrett
- Collection date:
- 1906
- Taxon:
- Odocoileus
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Gambling bones
- Function:
- 5.6 Sports, Games, Amusements; Gambling and Pet Accessories
- Accession date:
- 1906
- Context of use:
- Used as a gambling bone
- Department:
- Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
- Legacy documentation:
-