Bone Dice
date: label: date made
content: 1800s
notes: label: Description
content: Gambling usually was banned aboard whaling ships, on the grounds that it could cause too much strife among the crew. But “bones” or dice were easily concealed from a ship’s officers, and crews found out-of-the-way places to spend their free time wagering their earnings, tobacco, or other assets.
topic: label: related event
content: Expansion and Reform
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content: Work and Industry: Fisheries
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content: On the Water exhibit
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content: Art
label: Exhibition
content: On the Water
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: National Museum of American History. On the Water exhibition website
label: Related Web Publication
content: http://americanhistory.si.edu/onthewater
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: AG.024849.1
label: accession number
content: 1875.4423
label: catalog number
content: 24849.1
objectType: label: Object Name
content: dice, ivory
label: Object Name
content: dice, ivory (pair)
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: bone (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/2 in x 1/2 in x 1/2 in; 1.27 cm x 1.27 cm x 1.27 cm