Gambling Game
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1 Dec 1872
name: label: Collector
content: Major John W. Powell
label: Donor Name
content: Major John W. Powell
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "?ILLUS. IN BAE 24TH AR, PL. XXI, P. 791 ("BARK PLAYING CARDS; LENGTHS, 5-10 INCHES; UINKARET INDIANS, ARIZONA....). ILLUS. IN USNM REPT, 1896; PL. 11; P. 748. INVENTORIED 1975. ILLUS.: HNDBK. N. AMER. IND., VOL. 11, GREAT BASIN, FIG. 91, PG. 381."
label: Notes
content: Listed under Gaming Implements/Bark Playing Cards and illustrated (Figure 61) in Fowler and Matley (1979) with the following remarks: "A set of ten juniper bark (Juniperensis sp.) 'playing cards' ... "Given the conflicting views of Powell and Culin [quoted], the question as to whether the specimens are 'cards' or 'dice' must remain unresolved. There are no other reported implements like them from the Numic area. Provenience: 'Southern Paiute, Southern Utah.'" p. 71
label: Notes
content: “Southern Paiute, Southern Utah” is a distinction observed by Fowler and Matley (1979) when specific band identification was not possible. “Southern Paiute. Southern Utah refers in general to the bands that Powell encountered in southern Utah and the Arizona Strip (that portion of present-day Arizona north of the Grand Canyon), i.e., the Kaibab, Uinkarets, Unkakaniguts and Shivwits.” [see: Fowler and Matley (1979), p. 5-6]
label: Notes
content: Culture attribution per Fowler and Matley (1979)
label: Record Last Modified
content: 12 Jan 2018
label: Specimen Count
content: 13
place: label: Place
content: Southern, Utah, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Paiute, Southern
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 002357
label: USNM Number
content: E11217-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Gambling Set
physicalDescription: label: Minimum Length - Object
content: 13 cm
label: Maximum Length - Object
content: 25 cm