Gaming Bones
97-84-2094
From: Montana | Missoula River
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 97-84-2094 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Cree |
| Provenience | Montana | Missoula River |
| Culture Area | Great Plains Culture Area |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Bone | Hide |
| Description | For hand game. Two sections of leg bone, polished and showing traces of red paint. Perforated midway on opposite sides, with connecting groove, filled by leather thong which passes through the bone. Now tied together by buckskin thong passing through their central cavity. |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1997 |
| Other Number | L-84-2094 - Old Museum Number | 17892 - ANSP Number | I 316 - Gottschall Number |
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