Game Of Seven Dice
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1885
name: label: Donor Name
content: Dr. Washington Matthews
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Illus. in BAE 24th AR, figure 97, p. 95. Also in USNM Rept, 1896; fig. 50; p. 716."
label: Notes
content: These are described in the BAE 24th Annual Report, p. 95, as: "Set of seven blocks of cedar wood, three-fourths of an inch in length, seven-sixteenths of an inch wide, and one-fourth of an inch thick; section hemispherical. Six have flat sides blackened and one painted red; opposite unpainted. These were collected by Dr Washington Matthews, U. S. Army. The game was "played with counters by women.' Doctor Matthews describes another game similar to the above under the name of taka-thad-sata or the thirteen chips: 'It is played With thirteen thin flat pieces of wood which are colored red on one side and left white or uncolored on the other. Success depends on the number of chips which, being thrown upward, fall with their white sides up.'"
label: Record Last Modified
content: 9 Aug 2025
label: Specimen Count
content: 5
place: label: Place
content: Arizona, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Navajo (Diné)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 015524
label: USNM Number
content: E74735-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Dice