Game piece; flat bottomed duck or goose, ivory, perforated near tail. Length 3.8 cm. From game of “fox and goose” (”Tingmiujaq”); might also be toy (compare with Nelson, page 342).
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Lower Yukon, Yukon, Yukon-Koyukuk Borough
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska; Lower Yukon
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo
Collector:
Charles L. Hall
Collection date:
ca. 1895
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Game pieces (game elements)
Accession date:
August 12, 1902
Context of use:
From game of "fox and geese" (Tingminjaq). Might also be a toy.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 3.8 centimeters
Comment:
Context of use: (Tingmiujaq); cf. Nelson, p. 342. References: Murdoch, pp. 364-65 and D.J. Ray, Artists of the Tundra and the Sea. fig. 28.