Ball stick
Usage Conditions Apply
- Culture/People
- Oklahoma Cherokee
- Previous owner
- Dwight D. Saunders, Non-Indian, 1918-2006
- Donor
- Dwight D. Saunders, Non-Indian, 1918-2006
- Object Name
- Ball stick
- Media/Materials
- Wood, commercial leather thong
- Techniques
- Carved, wrapped
- Dimensions
- 83.5 x 7.5 x 6 cm
- Object Type
- Games, Toys, Gambling: Ball game items
- Place
- Northeastern Oklahoma; Oklahoma; USA
- Date created
- circa 1950
- Collection History
- Purchased by Dwight D. Saunders (1918-2006, an art professor at Bacone College) in the early 1950s at a small Indian museum in Muskogee, Oklahoma; donated to NMAI by Dwight Saunders in 2004.
- Catalog Number
- 26/5101
- Barcode
- 265101.000
- See related items
- Oklahoma Cherokee
- Games, Toys, Gambling: Ball game items
- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Contact Us
- Have a concern, a correction, or something to add? Contact us: https://nmai.si.edu/collections-statement