Snow-Snake
date: label: Accession Date
content: 15 Nov 1944
name: label: Collector
content: Mr. J. N. Hewitt
label: Donor Name
content: Bureau Of American Ethnology
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Single piece of wood, tipped on fore end with round metal head. Varnished. Dr. Wm. Fenton says this is the same type as that used by the different peoples of the Iroquois League on their reservations in New York and Canada. Collected by J. N. B. Hewitt."
label: Notes
content: For some information on snow snake see Zotigh, Dennis. "How to Play Snow Snake, the Traditional Winter Game of the Haudenosaunee." Smithsonian Voices, February 29, 2024. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/national-museum-american-indian/2024/02/29/snow-snake-traditional-winter-game-of-the-haudenosaunee/.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 2 Mar 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Six Nations Reserve, Grand River, Ontario, Canada, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Iroquois (Haudenosaunee)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 168929
label: USNM Number
content: E383637-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Snowsnake
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 116.2 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 2.223 cm