Gambling sticks - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 57155 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 58.01 ROSACEAE Malus fusca | Entry Book Number | 35.1900 | |
| Artefact Name | Gambling sticks | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Canada | TDWG Region | Canada | ||
| Parts Held | Gambling sticks | Geography Description | Canada, British Columbia, Hope Island, Xumtaspi | ||
| Uses | Gambling sticksUse: SOCIAL USES User: Man | TDWG use | SOCIAL USES | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Newcombe Dr CF | Donor No | 1 | ||
| Donor Date | 30/06/1900 | Donor Notes | |||
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| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
| Number Components | Publication | ||||
| Notes: | Set of 30 gambling sticks with case made by the Kwakwaka'wakw (Kwakiutl) people of Hope Island. The gambling sticks made from crab apple wood are called Lebain in the Kwakwala language. Handwritten note reads: Gambling sticks, Crabapple, Pyrus rivularis, Doug., Xumtaspi, Hope Island. Newcombe was paid $5.00 for this item in 1900. | ||||
| Determinations: | 58.01 ROSACEAE Pyrus rivularis Douglas ex Hook. 58.01 ROSACEAE Malus fusca (Raf.) C.K.Schneid. | ||||