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. NO. 14663: FOR STUDY & RETURN: MR. STEWART CULIN UNIVERSITY OF PENN., PHILA., PA. MARCH 24, 1897. 14649, 14651, 14653-61, 14563 ONLY INVENTORIED 1975."
label: Notes
content: Listed under "Gaming Implements/Hand-Game Bones and illustrated (Figure 58b) in Fowler and Matley (1979) with the following remarks: "Two lots of willow tally sticks for the hand game are in the collection. Powell's catalog lists them simply as 'gambling sticks.' ... The second lot contains 44 tallly sticks peeled in the middle with 2-3-cm-wide bark 'caps' left on the ends (Figure 58b). Four of the sticks have incised rings cut into the bark caps at both ends....Provenience" Southern Paiute, Southern Utah." p. 71
label: Notes
content: Culture attribution per Fowler and Matley (1979)
label: Record Last Modified
content: 12 Jan 2018
label: Specimen Count
content: 4
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: E14663-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Gambling Set