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| Object Number: | 18612A |
| Current Location: | Collections storage |
| Culture: | Burmese |
| Provenience: | Burma |
| Date Made: | 1800-1895 |
| Early Date: | 1800 |
| Late Date: | 1895 |
| Section: | Asian |
| Materials: | Ivory |
| Technique: | Engraved |
| Credit Line: | Gift of Maxwell Sommerville, 1895 |
Description
One of three long rectangular ivory dice. Motif of two concentric circles with dot at center engraved into surface and filled in with red or black color appears once, twice, five times and six times on each side and one time on end.
Current & Past Exhibitions:
| Peace Around the World: Toys and Games for All the Ages (08 Dec 1996 - 31 Aug 1997) | View Objects in Exhibition | |
| Chess and Playing-Cards (18 Sep 1895 - 31 Dec 1895) | View Objects in Exhibition |
Bibliography:
| [Article] Brown, W. N. 1964. Indian Games of Pachisi, Chaupar, and Chausar. Expedition: The Magazine of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. 6 (3) : Page/Fig./Plate: Pg. 33 | View Objects related to this Bibliographic Reference | |
| [Catalogue] Culin, R. S. 1898. Chess and Playing Cards: Catalogue of games and implements for divination exhibited by the Unites States National Museum in connection with the Department of Archaeology and Paleontology of the University of Pennsylvania at the Cotton States and. : Page/Fig./Plate: 853 | View Objects related to this Bibliographic Reference |
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