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Date Made or Date Range: /1912
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Other Notes

eight white round disks resembling ivory all part of the same game;;

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Catalogue, Accession or Reference Number: III-I-559 a-h
Collection Narratives and Histories

1912/07, Six Nations Reserve, Ontario, Canada, Eight buttons, about an inch in diameter, were made of elk horn, and having been rounded and polish were slightly burned on one side to blacken the. beans were used as counters it was essential to try to throw for the highest score determined by how many colour had turned up.

GKS Reference Number: 26392
Approximate Place of Origin

43.0703, -80.1184