Gambling stick
- Date created
- 1870-1890
- Culture/People
- Kwakwaka'wakw (Kwakiutl)
- Collector
- Charles F. Newcombe (C.F. Newcombe), Non-Indian, 1851-1924
- Previous owner
- Charles F. Newcombe (C.F. Newcombe), Non-Indian, 1851-1924
- Free Museum of Science and Art (University of Pennsylvania Museum) (University Museum, University of Pennsylvania)
- Collection History
- Collected by Charles F. Newcombe (1851-1924, a physician and collector in British Columbia) at an unknown date; acquired at an unknown date by the Free Museum of Art and Science; part of the University Museum collection until 1908 when it was acquired by George Heye through an exchange with the Free Museum of Science and Art.
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- Place
- Xumtaspi; Mount Waddington Regional District; British Columbia; Canada
- Archipelago
- Vancouver Island Group
- Island Name
- Hope Island
- See related items
- Kwakwaka'wakw (Kwakiutl)
- Games, Toys, Gambling
- On View
- NMAI, Washington DC: Window on Collections, As We Grow: Traditions, Toys, & Games
- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Catalog Number
- 1/9281
- Barcode
- 019281.000
- Object Type
- Games, Toys, Gambling
- Native Term
- vao
- Object Name
- Gambling stick
- Media/Materials
- Animal bone, ivory, wood, pigment/pigments, thread
- Techniques
- Carved, polished, incised, drilled, wrapped, colored
- Dimensions
- 7.20 x 9.60 x 2.10 cm
- Record ID
- NMAI_20229