Stick Game Tossel
date: label: Accession Date
content: 8 Sep 1928
name: label: Collector
content: E. G. Johnson
label: Donor Name
content: Bureau Of American Ethnology
notes: label: Notes
content: Original tag with artifact and accession file identify this object as used by and collected from David Hostler.
label: Notes
content: This is a form of "ball" used in a three piece field game/stick game, a form of double ball game: two bottle shaped "billets" are fastened together by a thong to form a "ball" referred to as a tossel. For similar objects see p. 656 - 657 in "Games of the North American Indians" by Stewart Culin, B.A.E. 24th Annual Report. See also Southwest Museum of the American Indian Collection, Autry Museum of the American West, object ID 2007.66.7, which is available online: http://collections.theautry.org/mwebcgi/mweb.exe?request=record;id=M612286;type=101 . There would be two additional game sticks used to play the game. See also Ararahih'urípih, A Dictionary and Text Corpus of the Karuk Language, by William Bright and Susan Gehr ((c) Karuk Tribe), online entry on tákasar / takasara - 'tossel' or double-ball used in shinny, lexicon ID #5583, revised Dec 20 2015.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 21 Apr 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Hoopa, Humboldt County / Hoopa Valley Reservation, California, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Hupa
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 102896
label: USNM Number
content: E341296-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Game