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Set of bones for "lehal" or guessing game.
Set of bones for "lehal" or guessing game.
Object Number 15-36-10/86414
Display Title Set of bones for "lehal" or guessing game.
Descriptions
Inventory Description Ornament, carved bone, curved, one wrapped in buckskin at center
Classification
  • Ornament
Department Ethnographic
Date before 1915
Culture
  • Thompson
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / Canada / British Columbia
Materials Bone
Dimensions Overall: 6 x 1.3 x 1 cm (2 3/8 x 1/2 x 3/8 in.)
Quantity 2
Label on object 86414
Credit Line Museum Purchase, Huntington Frothingham Wolcott Fund, 1915
Provenance
Seller James A. Teit (?)
Collector James A. Teit

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