Stick Dice

22580

From: New Mexico

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number 22580
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Pueblo | Zuni
Provenience New Mexico
Culture Area Southwest Culture Area
Section American
Materials Cane (plant)
Description

A bundle of four stick dice made from halved cane reeds. Each die has the same pattern of painted lines at one end, both ends, in the center, or in all three positions. The pattern is of two curved lines facing another set of two curved lines connected by a short, longitudinal line. The reverse of each die is painted black with one painted entirely, one painted at both ends, one painted at one end, and one painted only in the center. The bundle is bound with a corn husk.

Credit Line Southwest Expedition; R. Stewart Culin; subscription of Robert C. H. Brock, 1902

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