Gambling-Set Of Blocks Without The Cavity In The End, Small
date: label: Accession Date
content: 17 Feb 1883
name: label: Collector
content: Col. James Stevenson
label: Donor Name
content: Bureau Of American Ethnology
notes: label: Notes
content: Described p. 683 in "Games of the North American Indians" by Stewart Culin, BAE 24th Annual Report. These objects are identified in publication as two kicking billets: cylindrical sticks that function as a type of ball, and are used in the kicked stick race, a form of the ball race game; 4 inches long, five-eights of an inch in diameter.
label: Notes
content: Illus. Fig. 1, p. 37, and described p. 36 iin Robert S. Weiner, SOCIOPOLITICAL, CEREMONIAL, AND ECONOMIC ASPECTS OF GAMBLING IN ANCIENT NORTH AMERICA: A CASE STUDY OF CHACO CANYON, American Antiquity, 83, 01, (34), (2018); https://doi.org/10.1017/aaq.2017.45 . Identified there as kick sticks: "Another central theme of Puebloan gaming is its association with rain=making, rain being of crucial importance to agriculture in the American Southwest yet highly variable. Zuni kick stick races, which involved players flinging a stick using the top of the foot ... without touching it with their hands, began in spring near planting time and continued until the summer solstice .... The first races were associated with rain-making, with teams comprised of members of different kivas and clans .... At Zuni, "[t]he forward kicking of the stick ... [is linked to] the way the rainwater from summer thunderstorms ... rushes down the arroyo and spreads over the fields" (Washburn 1999:553), and kick-sticks were sometimes left as offerings for kachina rain-spirits "in hope that as those beings race across the sky playing their favorite kick-stick game they will bring rain" (Ellis and Hammack 1968:33)."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Jul 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Pueblo Of Zuni, New Mexico, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 83A00001
label: USNM Number
content: E69274-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Kick Stick