Game

Museum number:
2-5598a,b
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21025598a@2cb
Alternate number:
3826 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.13 and Acc.88
Object count:
2
Description:
(a) Polished and tapered bone; (b) string of 9 glass beads and 3 vertebrae. Bone looks like possible ear pendant.
Donor:
John Preston Stanley, Philip Mills Jones, and Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Great Plains, North America
Verbatim coll. place:
; Great Plains
Culture or time period:
Blood
Collector:
Mrs. Freeman and Philip Mills Jones
Collection date:
1903
Object type:
ethnography
Function:
5.6 Sports, Games, Amusements; Gambling and Pet Accessories
Accession date:
1903 and August 1901
Context of use:
Cat. says: "pair of buttons for guessing game
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
(a)— length 4 centimeters
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Game, accession number 2-5598a,b, described as (a) Polished and tapered bone; (b) string of 9 glass beads and 3 vertebrae. Bone looks like possible ear pendant.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Game, accession number 2-5598a,b, described as (a) Polished and tapered bone; (b) string of 9 glass beads and 3 vertebrae. Bone looks like possible ear pendant.

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