Dominos Dice
date: label: Accession Date
content: 18 Feb 1869
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. James P. Kimball
label: Donor Name
content: Army Medical Museum
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "GAMBLING STICKS USED BY THE ASSIMBOINS [sic] OF DACOTAH TERRITORY. CONSIST OF FOUR FLAT STICKS OF HARD WOOD, 15 1/2" LONG, 1 1/8" WIDE IN THE CENTER, TAPERING TO 3/4" AT THE ENDS. TWO OF THEM ARE MARKED BY THEIR BROAD STRIPES OF RED PAINT, AND FOUR CHARACTERS REPRESENTING SHEAVES OF WHEAT BOUND INTO THE WOOD. THE OTHER TWO ARE MARKED BY TWO LONG IRREGULAR CHARACTERS BURNT IN THE WOOD. ILLUS. IN BAE 24TH AR, FIG. 222, P. 174; ALSO IN USNM REPT, 1896; FIG. 76; P. 750."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 12 Aug 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 4
place: label: Place
content: Fort Buford, Williams County, Dakota Territory / North Dakota, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Assiniboine (Nakoda/Nakota/Nakona)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 416140
label: USNM Number
content: E8498-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Dice
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 39.4 cm
label: Width - At Center
content: 2.857 cm
label: Width - At The Ends
content: 1.91 cm