Game

Museum number:
1-4337a-d
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21014337a@2dd
Alternate number:
1584 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.135, Acc.136, Acc.137, and Acc.138
Description:
Dice game. Four staves; each has a rounded, unpainted side a flattened painted side. The design on (a) is called man or rainbow and is blackened; (b), with red paint, is called woman or cayote heth. (c) and (d) bear the same design of 3 stripes and are called Dombilyu (bird) Waka.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Needles, San Bernardino County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; San Bernardino; Needles
Culture or time period:
Mohave
Collector:
Alfred L. Kroeber
Collection date:
1904
Object type:
ethnography
Accession date:
1904
Context of use:
A game used by women.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
16.3 centimeters
Comment:
The naming of the designs is apparently confused, as other accounts obtained, as in the cane myth, mention the rain-bow, which would be (a), coyote teeth which would be (b), and the woman and dombilyu waka.
Loans:
S1979-1980 #9: DeAnza College (August 31, 1979–December 17, 1979)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Game, accession number 1-4337a-d, described as Dice game. Four staves; each has a rounded, unpainted side a flattened painted side. The design on (a) is called man or rainbow and is blackened; (b), with red paint, is called woman or cayote heth. (c) and (d) bear the same design of 3 stripes and are called Dombilyu (bird) Waka.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Game, accession number 1-4337a-d, described as Dice game. Four staves; each has a rounded, unpainted side a flattened painted side. The design on (a) is called man or rainbow and is blackened; (b), with red paint, is called woman or cayote heth. (c) and (d) bear the same design of 3 stripes and are called Dombilyu (bird) Waka.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Game, accession number 1-4337a-d, described as Dice game. Four staves; each has a rounded, unpainted side a flattened painted side. The design on (a) is called man or rainbow and is blackened; (b), with red paint, is called woman or cayote heth. (c) and (d) bear the same design of 3 stripes and are called Dombilyu (bird) Waka.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Game, accession number 1-4337a-d, described as Dice game. Four staves; each has a rounded, unpainted side a flattened painted side. The design on (a) is called man or rainbow and is blackened; (b), with red paint, is called woman or cayote heth. (c) and (d) bear the same design of 3 stripes and are called Dombilyu (bird) Waka.

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