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Game; this includes a wooden dish, 5 dice of antler
Game; this includes a wooden dish, 5 dice of antler
Object Number 94-15-10/50792
Display Title Game; this includes a wooden dish, 5 dice of antler
Descriptions
Indigenous Term Wattissing
Object Description Game; this includes a wooden dish, 5 dice of antler
Inventory Description Game, wooden bowl, 65 sticks (4 notchec, 1 brkn), 5 incised bone discs
Classification
  • Game
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Micmac
  • Malecite
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / Canada / New Brunswick / <County> / Hampton
Materials Wood, Metal, Plaster?, Bone
Dimensions Overall: 23.5 x 22.9 x 6.2 cm (9 1/4 x 9 x 2 7/16 in.)
Quantity 71
Label on object 50792
Credit Line Museum purchase, 1894
Provenance
Owner Isidore Augustine (? - 1893)
Collector Archibald R. Tisdale (1893)
Donor Archibald R. Tisdale (1894)

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