Game cloth
Usage Conditions Apply
- Culture/People
- Alibamu
- Previous owner
- George Battise (George Batise), Alibamu, ca. 1860-1945
- Collector
- Chief William M. Skye (Bill Skye), Peoria, 1868-1923
- Leo Walker, Sac and Fox (Sauk & Fox)
- Mark Raymond Harrington (M. R. Harrington/MRH), Non-Indian, 1882-1971
- Object Name
- Game cloth
- Media/Materials
- Canvas, paint
- Techniques
- Painted
- Object Type
- Games, Toys, Gambling
- Native Term
- ta ni hiL ga ho li' so'
- Place
- Texas; USA
- Collection History
- Collected from George Battise (Alibamu, ca. 1860-1945) in 1910 by anthropologist Mark Raymond Harrington (1882-1971, MAI staff member), assisted by Chief William M. Skye (Peoria, 1868-1923) and expedition interpreter Leo Walker (Sac and Fox), during fieldwork sponsored by George Heye.
- Catalog Number
- 2/6747
- Barcode
- 026747.000
- See related items
- Alibamu
- Games, Toys, Gambling
- 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