Throwing pole
- Museum number:
- 1-10950
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21010010950
- Alternate number:
- 920 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.264, Acc.265, and Acc.266
- Description:
- Throwing pole, made of pepperwood.
- Donor:
- Samuel A. Barrett
- Collection place:
- Dunlap, Fresno County, California
- Verbatim coll. place:
- California; Fresno; Dunlap
- Culture or time period:
- Yokuts
- Collector:
- Samuel A. Barrett
- Collection date:
- February 1907
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Function:
- 5.6 Sports, Games, Amusements; Gambling and Pet Accessories
- Accession date:
- 1907
- Context of use:
- Used in playing the pole and block game. This game is played, usually by 4 people though any number from 2 up may participate, upon a ground about 20 paces in length, at each end of which is placed a small block. See 10904-5 at a distance of about
- Department:
- Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
- Comment:
- (cont''d from Use Context) ...players always choose sides and the points won by a player are not for himself but for his side. Points are counted upon the nearness of the pole to the block, the nearest pole not directly over the block counting one, but a pole directly over the block counting two. In case poles belonging to men of opposite sides come side by side directly over the block, or in case these poles fall at equal distances from this block, no score is counted; but in case their poles cross over the block only the lowest pole, that is the one nearest to the block, counts the full number of points, two. In case two poles belonging to men of the same side fall side by side over the block or at equal distances from it, each pole counts the full number of points, namely 2 and one respectively, for that side. 6 points constitute a score, the winning side taking the whole of the bet. Native name: "oiik", "nowit" (pepperwood), "aikiuca" (pole and block game), "wonok" (block).
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