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Ring Game

Object Number:22768
Current Location: Collections Storage
Culture:Blackfeet
Provenience: Montana
Culture Area: Great Plains Culture Area
Section:American
Materials:Buckskin
Metal
Seed
Outside Diameter:8 cm
Credit Line:Gift/Exchange of the Field Columbian Museum, 1901

Description

Made from an outer circle wrapped with red dyed buckskin. Six spokes, three of which are made from a coil of thin metal with a colored bead at the end. The other three spokes are made from two dark colored beads each.

Bibliography:

[Book] Culin, Robert S. 1975. Games of the North American Indians.. Dover Publications. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: 443-444View Objects related to this Actual Citation

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