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Plate and dice game with counting sticks
Plate and dice game with counting sticks
Object Number 09-9-10/74548
Display Title Plate and dice game with counting sticks
Descriptions
Object Description Plate and dice game. Plate, six antler dice and 49 counters.
Inventory Description Game, shallow wood bowl with bundle of sticks
Classification
  • Game
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Micmac?
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / Canada / Nova Scotia
Materials Wood Hide Pigment Ivory
Dimensions Overall: 3.3 x 28 x 27.5 cm (1 5/16 x 11 x 10 13/16 in.)
Quantity 2
Label on object 74548
Provenance
Collector Unknown (?)
Seller Walter Hill (1909)

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