Dice

Cowrie

Object Number:

16482B

Current Location:

Collections storage

Culture:

Sinhalese

Provenience:

Sri Lanka

Date Made:

19th century-1893

Early Date:

1800

Late Date:

1893

Section:

Asian

Materials:

Cowrie Shell

Description:

Loaded cowries; used as dice in Dhola Game

Credit Line:

Purchased from the Ceylon Commissioner, World's Columbian Exposition

Current & Past Exhibitions:

Chess and Playing-Cards (18 Sep 1895 - 31 Dec 1895)

Bibliography:

[Catalogue] Culin, R. S. 1898. Chess and Playing Cards: Catalogue of games and implements for divination exhibited by the Unites States National Msueum in connection with the Department of Archaeology and Paleontology of the University of Pennsylvania at the Cotton STates and. : Page/Fig./Plate: 856