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Gaming Mat

Object Number:NA8573
Current Location: Collections Storage
Culture:Tsimshian
Provenience: Canada
British Columbia
Culture Area: Northwest Coast Culture Area
Section:American
Materials:Hide
Pigment
Bone
Length: 61 cm
Width: 28 cm
Credit Line:Wanamaker Expedition to the Northwest Coast; Louis Shotridge, 1918

Description

Gambling mat with a red and black painted animal figure on one side. A strip of white fur goes down the center, flanked on either side by strips of brown fur. Red designs are painted between the fur and the fringed edges of the mat. A rectangular, bone ornament is attached to a strap at one end.

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