Pair of guessing bones for hand game. (a) Hollow tubular bone with 3 buckskin thongs in grooves. Length 7.3 cm. (b) Hollow tubular bone. Length 7.4 cm.
Donor:
John Preston Stanley, Philip Mills Jones, and Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Puget Sound, Western Washington
Verbatim coll. place:
; Puget Sound
Culture or time period:
Twana
Collector:
Myron Eells and Philip Mills Jones
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Game pieces (game elements)
Accession date:
August 1901 and March 15, 1902
Context of use:
Pair of guessing bones for hand game. "Played mostly by young men and older boys, acc. to Rev. Eells.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
b)— length 7.4 centimeters and a)— length 7.3 centimeters
Comment:
See Culin, "Games of the North American Indians," pp. 303-304. Photo: 15-25121.