Basket & Bone Dice
date: label: Accession Date
content: 18 Feb 1869
label: Collection Date
content: 1867 to 1868
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. U S Army Charles C. Gray
label: Collector
content: Dr. Washington Matthews
label: Donor Name
content: Army Medical Museum
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "USED BY BERTHOLD INDIANS. ILLUS. IN BAE 24TH AR, FIGS. 242-4, P. 187. [ILLUS.], USNM REPT, 1896; FIGS. 81-3; PP. 755-6." SEE PROCESSING LAB ACCESSION FILE FOR DETAILED ANALYSIS AND MEASUREMENTS OF BASKET AND DICE.
label: Notes
content: PROVENIENCE NOTE: PROVENIENCE IS SOMEWHAT UNCERTAIN, BUT IS LIKELY IN THE AREA OF FORT STEVENSON/FORT BERTHOLD, AS THE LEDGER LISTS THIS AS "MADE BY MANDANS, USED BY BERTHOLD INDIANS" AND THE TWO COLLECTORS, DRS. GRAY AND MATTHEWS, WERE POSTED TO THIS AREA IN THE LATE 1860'S. THE TWO FORTS WERE ONLY A FEW MILES APART. DR. MATTHEWS WAS POSTED FROM 1865-7 FORT UNION AND FORT BERTHOLD, DAKOTA TERR.. COLLECTOR DR. GRAY WAS POSTED 1866-7 FORT RANDALL, DAKOTA TERRITORY; 1867 ALSO FORT BUFORD, DAKOTA TERRITORY; 1867-1868 FORT STEVENSON, DAKOTA TERRITORY.
label: Notes
content: There are 5 circular and oval bone dice, four of which are incised with lines. The fifth has an incised image of the head of a buffalo (bison). The lines have been filled with red pigment.
label: Notes
content: Listed in original AMM catalog as #127, Gaming basket & dice used by all the Berthold Indians. Mandan manufacture. Very ancient invention.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 5 Jan 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 6
place: label: Place
content: Fort Berthold (not certain) / Fort Stevenson (not certain), Mclean County (not certain), Dakota Territory (not certain) / North Dakota (not certain), United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Mandan
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 416140
label: USNM Number
content: E8427-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Game Basket / Dice