Game Stick

Game

NA8572.2

From: Canada | British Columbia | Skeena River

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number NA8572.2
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Tsimshian
Provenience Canada | British Columbia | Skeena River
Culture Area Northwest Coast Culture Area
Section American
Materials Wood | Leather | Bone | Pigment
Technique Carved | Painted
Description

Set of wooden gambling sticks and a leather carrying case. Sticks are painted with different numbers of circumferal bands with red or black pigments, and some are incised. The leather case has a rectangular, bone ornament attached to a strap at one end.

Credit Line Wanamaker Expedition to the Northwest Coast; Louis Shotridge, 1918
Other Number SA6 - Field No SF

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