Staves

Museum number:
2-5576a-d
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21025576a@2dd
Alternate number:
3742 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.88
Description:
Gaming staves; bone, carved with straight and diagonal lines; 2 stained red, 2 yellow; 1 with partial sinew binding.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Blackfoot Reservation, Canada
Verbatim coll. place:
Canada; Blackfoot Reservation
Culture or time period:
Blackfoot of Canada
Collector:
J. Disbury and Philip Mills Jones
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Carvings (visual works)
Function:
5.6 Sports, Games, Amusements; Gambling and Pet Accessories
Accession date:
1903
Context of use:
For women's gambling game.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 17.5 centimeters
Comment:
References: Chess and Playing Cards, Stewart Culin; U.S. National Museum Report, 1896; Plate 5 pgs, 710-712.
Loans:
S1970-1971 #85: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/Lewis K. Napton (February 17, 1971–November 11, 1971)
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Staves, accession number 2-5576a-d, described as Gaming staves; bone, carved with straight and diagonal lines; 2 stained red, 2 yellow; 1 with partial sinew binding.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Staves, accession number 2-5576a-d, described as Gaming staves; bone, carved with straight and diagonal lines; 2 stained red, 2 yellow; 1 with partial sinew binding.

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