Gaming Bones 2 Sets & Board
date: label: Accession Date
content: 29 Mar 1899
label: Collection Date
content: 1898
name: label: Collector
content: Mr. William H. Holmes
label: Collector
content: C. F. Briggs
label: Donor Name
content: Bureau Of American Ethnology
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "200,295; 200,295A; 200,295B; 200,295C. BONE DICE, POMO INDIANS CAL. BONE DICE USED BY THE POMO AND OTHER INDIANS IN MENDOCINO AND LAKE CO. THE GAME THEY PLAY WITH THESE IS KNOWN AS THE GRASS GAME. WE GOT THEM FROM AN OLD INDIAN CALLED PULLMAN WHO LIVES ON A RANCHEREA NEAR HOPLAND, CALIFORNIA. THE GAME IS A SIMPLE ONE. AN INDIAN TAKES TWO OF THE BONES, ONE WITH A STRING AROUND IT AND ONE WITHOUT, COVERS THEM WITH GRASS IN HIS HANDS, CHANGES THEM FROM ONE HAND TO THE OTHER AND AFTER DOING THIS FOR A TIME HOLDS ONE HAND IN FRONT AND THE OTHER BEHIND HIS BODY. THE OTHER INDIAN THEN GUESSES WHICH ONE OF THE DICE IS IN WHICH HAND. 12 CONSTITUTES THE GAME AND HE WHO GUESSES RIGHT 12 TIMES FIRST WINS THE MONEY.THE WOMEN IN THESE SECTIONS USE SIX STICKS ABOUT 12 INCHES LONG, HALF ROUND ANDDECORATED WITH BURNT LINES ON THE BACK. THE COUNT IS THE SAME AS WITH THE TULARE DICE. IN ALL THE TRIBES WE HAVE VISITED THE MEN AND WOMEN USE DIFFERENT DEVICES FOR GAMBLING. PRESENTED BY C. F. BRIGGS, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. TO W. H. HOLMES, NOV. 1898. GIFT. " Illus. Fig. 373, p. 289 in "Games of the North American Indians" by Stewart Culin, B.A.E. 24th Annual Report. Identified there as bones for hand game.
label: Notes
content: Catalogue card for E200295 indicates that these objects were acquired from a man named Pullman. See p. 17 of Barrett, Samuel Alfred. 1952. Material aspects of Pomo culture. Milwaukee, Wis: Board of Trustees. (Bulletin of the Public Museum of the City of Milwaukee, Volume 20, Part 1). In this publication, Barrett lists his informants for the Central dialect of Pomo to include a man named Jeronimo Pullman: "Pullman, Jeronimo (Spanish). Hopland, Mendo. Co. Fire-tender. B. c. 1850." Jeronimo Pullman may be the same "Pullman" as is cited on the catalogue card?
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Jul 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 5
place: label: Place
content: Hopland (near), Mendocino County, California, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Pomo
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 034815
label: USNM Number
content: E200295-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Gambling Set