Gambling Sticks And Case
date: label: Accession Date
content: 29 Apr 1904
label: Collection Date
content: Ca. 1903 - 1904 ?
name: label: Collector
content: Lt. George T. Emmons
label: Donor Name
content: Lt. George T. Emmons
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Gambling Sticks in caribou case (double pocket) from Tahltan - the Tahltan people of the upper Stikine River where the Tahltan River joins it. Illus. in: Hndbook. of N. Amer. Indian, Vol. 6, Subarctic, Fig. 17, pg. 386." Identified as Tahltan in Handbook illustration caption.
label: Notes
content: Source of the information below: Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center Alaska Native Collections: Sharing Knowledge website, by Aron Crowell, entry on this artifact http://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=665, retrieved 8-23-2012: Gambling sticks and pouch, Tahltan Athabascan. Tahltan Athabascans played a traditional gambling game similar to that of their Tlingit neighbors, involving a trump stick and others shuffled beneath shredded cedar bark. This tanned caribou hide bag has a pocket at each end to hold the smooth wooden playing sticks, which are marked with black and red designs to designate their names and values. The bag is decorated with red flannel and glass beads and was made to hang over the shoulder.
label: Notes
content: This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027.
label: Notes
content: Illus. Fig. 9.6, left, p. 151 in Yanicki, Gabriel & Ives, John. "Mobility, Exchange, and the Fluency of Games: Promontory in a Broader Sociodemographic Setting. " In Prehistoric games of North American Indians: Subarctic to Mesoamerica, ed. Barbara Voorhies. University of Utah Press, 2017, 139 - 162.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 19 Aug 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 25
place: label: Place
content: Stikine River (not certain), Alaska (not certain) / British Columbia (not certain), United States (not certain) / Canada (not certain), North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Tlingit (?)
label: Culture
content: Tahltan (?)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 042638
label: USNM Number
content: E230019-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Gambling Set
physicalDescription: label: Length - Bag With Sticks
content: 32 cm