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Introduction

Used as a spear in a game of hoop and pole. This spear was thrown at the hoop.

Date Made or Date Range: /1912
Materials

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Other Notes

DE = Stick, hoop and pole game, wood. Single-pointed throwing stick, made of wood.A smooth tapering cylinder shape rod, increasing in thickness from the tail end with the thickest part being in the last third of the rod, near the pointed end,rod tapers for 16 cm, forming a point on head end. Finger position notch at tail end.;;

Reasons for connecting this relative with particular times, materials, styles and uses

1907/01/01, 1917/12/31;circa 1912;

Catalogue, Accession or Reference Number: III-I-576
Collection Narratives and Histories

1912/04 - 1912/07, Six Nations Reserve, Ontario, Canada, (CULTURE REMARKS)Attribution by provenance (DOCUMENTATION)(Waugh) "Two sticks for Hoop and Throwing Stick Game, J. Hess" (COMMENTS)Hoop and pole games were played throughout North America. They were always played by males. To play,a throwing spear or an arrow was shot or thrown at a hoop or ring. The count was decided by the way the thrown piece fell in relation to the hoop or ring. (Cullin, 420-421)

GKS Reference Number: 27125
Approximate Place of Origin

43.0703, -80.1184