Set Of Dice, Beaver Teeth
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1858
label: Collection Date
content: 1838 to 1842
name: label: Donor Name
content: United States Exploring Expedition
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "...CONSISTS OF 2. FOR STUDY & RETURN: MR. STEWART CULIN. UNIVERSITY OF PENN., PHILA, PA. MARCH 24, 1897."
label: Notes
content: Peale catalogue identifies as "Dice made of beaver teeth, used by the natives of Oregon in playing a native game." See "NARRATIVE OF THE UNITED STATES EXPLORING EXPEDITION," VOL. IV, P. 392, CHARLES WILKES, 1845.
label: Notes
content: Reference: "Games of the North American Indians" by Stewart Culin, Smithsonian Institution. 1907. Twenty-fourth annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology: to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1902-1903. Washington, D.C.: U.S. G.P.O. On pp. 155-156, Culin discusses the use of beaver teeth dice by the tribes of Puget Sound and British Columbia. On pp. 137-138 he describes woodchuck teeth dice used by the Kamath of Oregon.
label: Notes
content: One has original Peale number label. More complete tooth is etched with designs in black of triangles filled with horizontal lines.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 29 Aug 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Oregon, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E2686-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Dice