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Object Number 39-15-60/3312
Display Title Knuckle bones (sheep) - used in a dicing game
Descriptions
Inventory Description Game, gaming pieces made from joint bones
Classification
  • Game
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Mongolian
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Asia / Mongolia
Materials Bone
Dimensions Overall: 3 x 2 x 1.8 cm (1 3/16 x 13/16 x 11/16 in.)
Quantity 3
Label on object 39-15-60/3312
Provenance
Collector Owen Lattimore (ca. 1932)
Donor Donated by John Coddington (02/14/1939)

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