Dice

Museum number:
1-61780
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21010061780
Accession number:
Acc.811
Description:
Walnut shell, one set of eight. Shell halves filled with pitch and inlaid with sea shell bits.
Donor:
Sarah Levy and Sophia Hazel Levy McDonald
Collection place:
South Central California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Yokuts
Collector:
Sarah Levy
Collection date:
Before 1942
Materials:
Plant material
Object type:
ethnography
Function:
5.6 Sports, Games, Amusements; Gambling and Pet Accessories
Accession date:
1942
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
3.5 centimeters
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Dice, accession number 1-61780, described as Walnut shell, one set of eight. Shell halves filled with pitch and inlaid with sea shell bits.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Dice, accession number 1-61780, described as Walnut shell, one set of eight. Shell halves filled with pitch and inlaid with sea shell bits.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Dice, accession number 1-61780, described as Walnut shell, one set of eight. Shell halves filled with pitch and inlaid with sea shell bits.

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