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: See p. 335 of Stewart Culin, "Games of the North American Indians", B.A.E. 24th Annual Report, where object is identified as counting sticks for four-stick game.
label: Notes
content: Listed under Gaming Implements as Four-Stick Game and identified as "tally sticks" in Fowler and Matley (1979) with the following remarks: "The complete set of four billets (Figure 58a) is made of willow (Salix sp.) sticks ... is illustrated by Culin (1907;334, fig 442). Provenience: Southern Paiute, Southern Utah, USNM 14661 ... The associated tally sticks are all willow. They vary in size from 28 to 35 cm long... The tally sticks were used to keep score." p. 69-70
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: Notes
content: Culture attribution per Fowler and Matley (1979)
label: Record Last Modified
content: 23 Feb 2017
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, Southern
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 74A00055
label: USNM Number
content: E14654-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Gambling Set