Game Sticks

NA8539

From: Canada | British Columbia | Skeena River

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number NA8539
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Canada | British Columbia | Skeena River
Culture Area Northwest Coast Culture Area
Section American
Materials Wood | Hide
Technique Carved
Description

Set of 61 wooden gambling sticks painted with different numbers of circumferal bands in red or black pigments. Some are wrapped with a leather strap.

Length 14 cm
Credit Line Wanamaker Expedition to the Northwest Coast; Louis Shotridge, 1918
Other Number SA19 - Field No SF

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