Stick Dice (20)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 17 May 1892
label: Collection Date
content: C. 1891
name: label: Collector
content: Mr. James Mooney
label: Donor Name
content: Bureau Of American Ethnology
notes: label: Notes
content: Dice (Tangokya). Twenty half-round sticks variously marked with red and black lines, zigzags and dots. 4.25" (11 cm) - 5.5" (14 cm). Records: Consists of eight short sticks, variously marked. They are thrown like dice. The sticks are called mares and horses. The score of the game is kept by tally sticks. Played only by men. A favorite game in gambling for horses. Illustrated in BAE-AR 24, 129, fig. 137; USNM-AR 1896, 734, fig. 55. (C, L). (from Merrill, William L. et al. 1997. A Guide to the Kiowa Collections at the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Contributions to Anthropology, no. 40. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press.)
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Jul 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 20
place: label: Place
content: Kiowa And Comanche Reservation, Oklahoma / Indian Territory, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Kiowa
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 025718
label: USNM Number
content: E152909-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Dice