Ball stick
date: label: Date created
content: 1964
name: label: Culture/People
content: Mississippi Choctaw
label: Artist/Maker
content: John Bell, Mississippi Choctaw
label: Previous owner
content: Indian Arts and Crafts Board, Department of the Interior (IACB), 1935-
label: IACB source
content: Qualla Arts & Crafts Mutual (Qualla Arts & Crafts Cooperative/Qualla Arts & Crafts Coop/Qualla Crafts), 1946-
notes: label: Collection History
content: Purchased by Indian Arts and Crafts Board representatives from the Qualla Arts and Crafts Cooperative (Cherokee, North Carolina) in 1964; part of the IACB Headquarters collection (Department of the Interior, Washington, DC) until 2000 when it was transferred to NMAI.
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place: label: Place
content: Conehatta Community, Choctaw Reservation; Newton County; Mississippi; USA
setName: label: See related items
content: Mississippi Choctaw
label: See related items
content: Games, Toys, Gambling: Ball game items
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of the American Indian
identifier: label: Catalog Number
content: 25/6173
label: Barcode
content: 256173.000
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Games, Toys, Gambling: Ball game items
physicalDescription: label: Object Name
content: Ball stick
label: Media/Materials
content: Hickory wood, commercially tanned leather, metal nails
label: Techniques
content: Carved, bent, nailed, looped, tied
label: Dimensions
content: 67.7 x 10.5 x 5.1 cm