Gambling bone

Museum number:
1-9984
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21010009984
Alternate number:
93 (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)
Comment:
Photo: 15-8272. Published: Milwaukee Pub. Museum Bull. v. 2, pls. 58.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Gambling bone, accession number 1-9984, described as Leg-bone of deer partly worked and polished, to be used as a gambling bone.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Gambling bone, accession number 1-9984, described as Leg-bone of deer partly worked and polished, to be used as a gambling bone.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Gambling bone, accession number 1-9984, described as Leg-bone of deer partly worked and polished, to be used as a gambling bone.

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