Gambling Sticks
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1874
name: label: Collector
content: Major John W. Powell
label: Donor Name
content: Major John W. Powell
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "14648-63. 14649, 14651, 14653-61, 14563 ONLY INVENTORIED 1975."
label: Notes
content: Listed (under incorrect # 14569) under "Gaming Implements/Hand-Game Bones in Fowler and Matley (1979) with the following remarks: "Two lots of willow tally sticks for the hand game are in the collection. Powell's catalog lists them simply as 'gambling sticks.' One lot contains 46 sticks ranging from 9.5 to 13.5 cm long and 0.6 to 0.8 cm in diameter. ... Provenience" Southern Paiute, Southern Utah." p. 71.
label: Notes
content: Culture attribution per Fowler and Matley (1979)
label: Notes
content: “Southern Paiute, Southern Utah” is a distinction observed by Fowler and Matley (1979) when specific band identification was not possible. “Southern Paiute. Southern Utah refers in general to the bands that Powell encountered in southern Utah and the Arizona Strip (that portion of present-day Arizona north of the Grand Canyon), i.e., the Kaibab, Uinkarets, Unkakaniguts and Shivwits.” [see: Fowler and Matley (1979), p. 5-6]
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 5
place: label: Place
content: South, Utah, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Paiute
label: Culture
content: Paiute, Southern
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 74A00055
label: USNM Number
content: E14659-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Gambling Set