Throwing Stick
date: label: Accession Date
content: 25 Dec 1893
name: label: Collector
content: Rev. Heinrich R. Voth
label: Donor Name
content: World's Columbian Exposition
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Played by girls."
label: Notes
content: Compare to E175621. See also p. 400 in "Games of the North American Indians" by Stewart Culin, BAE 24th Annual Report, in section on snow snake game: "Mr. James Mooney says: The bati'qtuba (abbreviated ti'qtup) game of the Arapaho and other prairie tribes somewhat resembles the Iroquois game of the snow-snake, and is played by children or grown persons of both sexes. It is a very simple game, the contestants merely throwing or sliding the sticks along the ground to see who can send them farthest. Two persons or two parties play against each other, boys sometimes playing against girls, or men against women. It is, however, more especially a girls' game. The game sticks (bati'qta'wa) are slender willow rods, about 4 feet long, peeled and painted, and tipped with a point of buffalo horn to enable them to slide more easily along the ground. In throwing, the player holds the stick at the upper end with the thumb and fingers, and, swinging it like a pedulum, throws it out with a sweeping motion. Young men throw arrows about in the same way, and small boys sometimes throw ordinary reeds or week stalks."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 24 Jan 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, Cheyenne And Arapaho Reservation, Oklahoma, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Cheyenne (Tsitsistas, Suhtai)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 026674
label: USNM Number
content: E165871-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Game Dart