Playing Cards
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1868
name: label: Donor Name
content: Capt W. H. Mills
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "MADE OF THREE RECTANGULAR STRIPS OF HIDE, WITH THE CHARACTERS TO REPRESENT THE VARIOUS CARDS OF EACH SUIT PAINTED ON. EACH OF THE FOUR SUITS CONSISTS OF TEN CARDS, FROM 1 TO 7 SPOTS INCLUSIVE, AND THREE "FACE" OR PICTURE CARDS. THE PICTURE CARDS REPRESENT, A MAN STANDING ERECT A WOMAN WITH A LONG GOWN REACHING FROM HER SHOULDERS TO HER FEET, A MAN ON HORSEBACK. THE FOUR SUITS ARE DESIGNATED AS FOLLOWS;--ONE BY A CIRCLE A SECOND BY A STRAIGHT BLACK LINE WITH A SPEAR BARB ON ONE END; A THIRD BY AN IRREGULAR AND SOMEWHAT POINTED OVAL, A FOURTH, BY AN EQUIBATERAT TRIANGLE WITH ONE APEX RESTING SOME CASES ON A SHORT RECTANGLE, AND IN OTHERS ON A SECOND TRIANGLE. IN ALL CASES, THE CHARACTERS ARE THE TWO SPOT AND ONE SPOT CARDS ARE LARGER, AND MORE ORNAMENTED THAN THE OTHER CARDS. IN THIS DECK OF CARDS THE CORNERS ARE ROUNDED OFF. IN THE FIRST AND THIRD SUITS THE FIGURES ARE PAINTED WITH YELLOW AND RED THE SECOND AND FOURTH, ARE RED AND BLACK. INVENTORIED 1974." This object is illustrated and described on p. 100 of Wayland, Virginia, Harold Wayland, and Alan Ferg. 2006; Playing cards of the Apaches: a study in cultural adaptation; Tucson, Ariz: Screenfold Press.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Jul 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Arizona Near, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Apache
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 001429
label: USNM Number
content: E7316-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Card