Women's Gambling Implements Of Berthold Indians
date: label: Accession Date
content: 18 Feb 1869
label: Collection Date
content: 1867 to 1868
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. U S Army Charles C. Gray
label: Collector
content: Dr. Washington Matthews
label: Donor Name
content: Army Medical Museum
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "GAMBLING BONES USED BY THE GROS VENTRES INDIANS OF DACOTAH TERRITORY. FOUR FLAT PIECES OF BONE 8 1/4" LONG, 5/8" WIDE IN THE MIDDLE TAPERING SLIGHTLY TO THE ENDS. TWO PIECES ARE MARKED BY LINES CROSSED SO AS TO FORM PAIRS OF TRIANGLES IN WHICH ARE THREE SMALL HOLES. TWO ARE MARKED BY GROUPS OF THREE PARALLEL LINES IN THE SPACES BETWEEN WHICH ARE SMALL HOLES. ILLUS. IN USNM REPT, 1896; FIG. 80; P. 754." CULTURE CHANGED FROM GROS VENTRE TO HIDATSA PER C. GREENE 8-20-1999. SEE PROCESSING LAB ACCESSION FILE FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION.
label: Notes
content: PROVENIENCE NOTE: PROVENIENCE IS SOMEWHAT UNCERTAIN, BUT IS LIKELY IN THE AREA OF FORT STEVENSON/FORT BERTHOLD, AS THE LEDGER LISTS LOCALE AS "BERTHOLD INDIANS" AND THE TWO COLLECTORS, DRS. GRAY AND MATTHEWS, WERE POSTED TO THIS AREA IN THE LATE 1860'S. THE TWO FORTS WERE ONLY A FEW MILES APART. DR. MATTHEWS WAS POSTED FROM 1865-7 FORT UNION AND FORT BERTHOLD, DAKOTA TERR.. COLLECTOR DR. GRAY WAS POSTED 1866-7 FORT RANDALL, DAKOTA TERRITORY; 1867 ALSO FORT BUFORD, DAKOTA TERRITORY; 1867-1868 FORT STEVENSON, DAKOTA TERRITORY.
label: Notes
content: Listed in original AMM catalog as #125, Women's Gaming Trinkets
label: Record Last Modified
content: 2 Dec 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 4
place: label: Place
content: Fort Berthold (not certain) / Fort Stevenson (not certain), Mclean County (not certain), Dakota Territory (not certain) / North Dakota (not certain), United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Hidatsa
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 416140
label: USNM Number
content: E8425-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Dice
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 20.95 cm
label: Width - At Middle
content: 1.587 cm