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Gambling bones
Object Number 05-7-10/64781
Display Title Gambling bones
Descriptions
Inventory Description Game, 3 bone tubes, 1 incised around ends, 2 wrapped at center with string
Classification
  • Game
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Pomo
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / California
Materials Bone, String, Pigment
Dimensions Overall: 7.4 x 1.1 x 0.3 cm (2 15/16 x 7/16 x 1/8 in.)
Quantity 3
Label on object 64781
Provenance
Collector Grace A. Nicholson (Unknown)
Donor Mr. Lewis Hobart Farlow (01/01/1905)

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