game
game
game
Place of Origin:
Six Nations of the Grand River Territory
Date Made or Date Range:
/1912
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Materials
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Other Notes
eight white round disks resembling ivory all part of the same game;;
Reasons for connecting this relative with particular times, materials, styles and uses
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Provenance
Current Location:
Canadian Museum of History, Ottawa, Canada
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.
About This GRASAC Record
GKS Reference Number:
26392
Approximate Place of Origin