Game

Museum number:
2-5593a-c
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21025593a@2dc
Alternate number:
3821 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.13 and Acc.88
Description:
(a) Game ring or hoop; rawhide wrapped wheel with 4 projecting springs; 8 glass beads; bound with sinew. Diameter 8.5 cm. (b, c) 2 arrows; feathered; sinew bound; metal points. Length 68 cm. Men’s gambling game. The wheel is rolled on the ground while the players attempt to shoot arrows into the ring openings.
Donor:
John Preston Stanley, Philip Mills Jones, and Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Great Plains, North America
Verbatim coll. place:
Great Plains
Culture or time period:
Blood
Collector:
Mrs. Freeman and Philip Mills Jones
Collection date:
1903
Object type:
ethnography
Function:
5.6 Sports, Games, Amusements; Gambling and Pet Accessories
Accession date:
1903 and August 1901
Context of use:
Men's gambling game. The wheel is rolled on the ground while the players attempt to shoot arrows into the ring opening.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
(a)— 68 centimeters and (a)— diameter 8.5 centimeters
Comment:
Photo: 15-4399 (wheel). Exhibited: UCLMA, Plains Indians, 1971. References: For description of game and very similar ill. cf: BAE 24th Annual Report; Wash. 1907; fig. 641, 663; pg. 491-492 Stewart Culin, Games of the N.A. Indians.
Loans:
S1964-1965 #18: Merritt College/Helen Creagh (October 12, 1964–October 14, 1964)
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Game, accession number 2-5593a-c, described as (a) Game ring or hoop; rawhide wrapped wheel with 4 projecting springs; 8 glass beads; bound with sinew. Diameter 8.5 cm. (b, c) 2 arrows; feathered; sinew bound; metal points. Length 68 cm. Men’s gambling game. The wheel is rolled on the ground while the players attempt to shoot arrows into the ring openings.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Game, accession number 2-5593a-c, described as (a) Game ring or hoop; rawhide wrapped wheel with 4 projecting springs; 8 glass beads; bound with sinew. Diameter 8.5 cm. (b, c) 2 arrows; feathered; sinew bound; metal points. Length 68 cm. Men’s gambling game. The wheel is rolled on the ground while the players attempt to shoot arrows into the ring openings.

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