Game

Museum number:
2-5599a-d
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21025599a@2dd
Alternate number:
3827 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.13 and Acc.88
Description:
Gambling staves (stick dice); bone (probably elkhorn); boat-shaped with incised markings; 2 stained red. Women’s gambling game. Probably used with 2-5600 (stick counters).
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:
Women's gambling game; probably used with 2-5600 (stick counters).
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 18 centimeters
Comment:
References: B.A.E. 24th Annual Report; Wash., 1907; Stewart Culin, Games of the N.A. Indians, p. 58; fig. 30.
Loans:
S1979-1980 #32: Merritt College/Maurice Wolfe (January 14, 1980–May 6, 1980)
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Game, accession number 2-5599a-d, described as Gambling staves (stick dice); bone (probably elkhorn); boat-shaped with incised markings; 2 stained red. Women’s gambling game. Probably used with 2-5600 (stick counters).Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Game, accession number 2-5599a-d, described as Gambling staves (stick dice); bone (probably elkhorn); boat-shaped with incised markings; 2 stained red. Women’s gambling game. Probably used with 2-5600 (stick counters).

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