Awl Game Board
date: label: Accession Date
content: 14 Nov 1947
name: label: Collector
content: Brig. Gen. James D. Glennan
label: Donor Name
content: Frances Glennan
notes: label: Notes
content: Awl game board. Thin sheet of rawhide painted with reddish-brown dots and lines. Inscribed "Tsone-wah." 31" (79 cm). Records: Kiowa women's game, called the awl game. The four sticks representing dice are struck on the stone and allowed to fall. Their value is given in markings on the sticks and players move so many points, sticking the awls in the sheet of leather as markers. The lines represent streams, and if the number thrown takes the player there, they fall into the water and have to start over. A common Kiowa game. Illustrated in: BAE-AR 24, 124-126. (C). (from Merrill, William L. et al. 1997. A Guide to the Kiowa Collections at the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Contributions to Anthropology, no. 40. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press.)
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Jul 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, Oklahoma Territory, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Kiowa
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 177672
label: USNM Number
content: E385896-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Game