Game Stick

Game

NA8571.2

From: Canada | British Columbia | Skeena River

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number NA8571.2
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Tsimshian
Provenience Canada | British Columbia | Skeena River
Culture Area Northwest Coast Culture Area
Section American
Materials Bone | Leather
Description

Set of 61 bone gambling sticks and a leather carrying case. Sticks are incised with different numbers of circumferal bands and painted with red or black pigments. The leather case has a rectangular, bone ornament attached to a strap at one end.

Length 17 cm
Width 9 cm
Credit Line Wanamaker Expedition to the Northwest Coast; Louis Shotridge, 1918
Other Number SA 5 - Other Number

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