Gambling Game Sticks Item Number: A149 a-ppp from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Description
Leather pouch (part a) and sixty seven (parts b-ppp) bone game pieces. Pouch strap has an ornamental bone carving on the end. One piece (part b) has an inlaid abalone shell dot near the end and an empty hole on the opposite side. Forty five of the thin cylindrical bone sticks (parts c-uu) have incised lines around their centres. The other twenty one pieces (parts vv-ppp) are plain bone.
Narrative
According to Burnett this item, as well as A146, A150-A153, A155-A157, "...belonged to the late Medicine Man Najieksum Illthpooen (the tail of the whale), of the Kityelash tribe, the people who live by the strong water, Port Essington District ... and was purchased from his widow by the Methodist Missionary of that district."
Item History
- Made in Kitselas, British Columbia, Canada before 1927
- Collected in Port Essington, British Columbia, Canada between 1920 and 1927
- Owned by Najieksum Illthpooen
- Owned by Frank Burnett before 1927
- Received from Frank Burnett (Donor) on July 25, 1927
What
- Name
- Gambling Game Sticks
- Identification Number
- A149 a-ppp
- Type of Item
- game stick
- Material
- leather skin, abalone shell and bone
- Manufacturing Technique
- carved, incised, inlaid, polished and sewn
- Overall
- height 31.5 cm, width 15.5 cm, depth 4.5 cm
- Part B
- height 13.0 cm, diameter 0.8 cm
Who
- Culture
- Tsimshian
- Previous Owner
- Najieksum Illthpooen and Frank Burnett
- Received from
- Frank Burnett (Donor)
Where
- Holding Institution
- MOA: University of British Columbia
- Made in
- Kitselas, British Columbia, Canada
- Collected in
- Port Essington, British Columbia, Canada
When
- Creation Date
- before 1927
- Collection Date
- between 1920 and 1927
- Ownership Date
- before 1927
- Acquisition Date
- on July 25, 1927
Other
- Condition
- good
- Current Location
- Case 17
- Accession Number
- 2191/0181 a-ppp