Ball-Sticks For The Game
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1884
label: Collection Date
content: Jul 1881
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Edward Palmer
label: Donor Name
content: Bureau Of American Ethnology
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "BALL STICKS OR RACKETS MADE OF HICKORY WOOD. RODS OF TOUGH HICKORY ABOUT SEVEN FEET LONG ARE DRESSED TO THE PROPER SHAPE, THE ENDS HAVING A HEMISPHERICAL SECTION THE MIDDLE PART BEING FLAT. THEY ARE BENT AND THE ENDS UNITED LEAVING A PEAR SHAPED LOOP SIX INCHS IN WIDTH BY ABOUT TWELVE IN LENGTH; THIS LOOP IS THEN FILLED WITH A NETWORK OF LEATHER OR BARK STRINGS SUFFICIENTLY CLOSE TO HOLD THE BALL."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 21 Aug 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Yellow Hill Council House, Jackson County, North Carolina, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Cherokee
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 014255
label: USNM Number
content: E63061-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Ball Game Stick