- Date
- 1965 – 1970
- Material
- bone; skin; metal
- Catalogue Number
- 108.01.0010
- Description
- Hollowed out chicken or phalanguel bones, drilled, through with multiple holes. A buckskin cord passes through bone shafts. Button at one end keeps bones on cord, other end of cord attached to metal skewer stick. One of five bones broken but still functions.
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- Title
- Bone Game
- Date
- 1965 – 1970
- Material
- bone; skin; metal
- Dimensions
- 2.5 x 28.0 cm
- Description
- Hollowed out chicken or phalanguel bones, drilled, through with multiple holes. A buckskin cord passes through bone shafts. Button at one end keeps bones on cord, other end of cord attached to metal skewer stick. One of five bones broken but still functions.
- Subject
- Indigenous
- pastime
- entertainment
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 108.01.0010
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