Children's Game Darts
date: label: Accession Date
content: 3 Oct 1902
label: Collection Date
content: 1902
name: label: Collector
content: Frank Russell
label: Donor Name
content: Bureau of American Ethnology
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "COLL. IN 1902. CORN COB WITH FEATHERS FIXED IN ONE END. THROWN BY CHILDREN AT PLAY."
label: Notes
content: Feathers no longer present. See p. 179 in BAE 26th Annual Report, "The Pima Indians" by Frank Russell. Russell notes "The children sometimes amuse themselves by tossing into the air corncobs in which from one to three feathers have been stuck. They do not shoot arrows at them." See also p. 489, in "Games of the North American Indians" by Stewart Culin, Hoop and Pole Game chapter, in BAE 24th Annual Report. Culin describes a Pima/Akimel O'odham quins game, which includes a stick or "arrow" with a feather at one end and a corncob at the other. A short split stick is first thrown in a slanting direction, then each player pitches his "arrow" to see who can come nearest to it.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 14 May 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Sacaton, Gila River Reservation, Arizona, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Pima (Akimel O'odham; Akimel O'otham)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 039990
label: USNM Number
content: E218048-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Game