• Results (14)
  • Search

Item Search

The item search helps you look through the thousands of items on the RRN and find exactly what you’re after. We’ve split the search into two parts, Results, and Search Filters. You’re in the results section right now. You can still perform “Quick searches” from the menu bar, but if you’re new to the RRN, click the Search tab above and use the exploratory search.

View Tutorial

Log In to see more items.

Game Sticks (2)16/4795 AB
Counting Stick1918.14 A-BB

Culture
Mi'kmaq
Material
cane
Holding Institution
Nova Scotia Museum
View Item Record
Gambling Game SticksA1641 a-xx

Pouch (part a) made of cloth is relatively square with a very long flap, has a long blue band running along one side, and has a long metal piece engraved with 'MAY 6 1851' attached by a skin strip. Forty nine (parts b-xx) wooden sticks, all of uniform size, some of which are inlaid with abalone shells of different designs: one stick (part b) has two circular abalone shell inlays near the centre; a second stick (part c) has a triangular abalone shell inlay near the centre; a third stick (part d) has one circular abalone shell inlay near the centre; a fourth stick (part e) has a trapezoid-shaped abalone shell inlay near one end; seventeen sticks (parts f-v) are plain; and twenty-eight sticks (parts w-xx) appear to have various decorative lines.

Culture
Gitxsan
Material
abalone shell, wood, cotton fibre ?, metal and skin
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
View Item Record
Gambling Game SticksNb11.381 a-l

Set of painted lehal sticks (11 game sticks: five are blue with black bands, five are blue with red bands, 1 has red and black bands) and leather tie which ties around the whole group of sticks. (Game sticks are a-k, leather tie is part l).

Culture
Nuu-chah-nulth
Material
yellow cedar wood, paint and leather skin
Made in
Ahousat, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
View Item Record
Gambling Game Sticks1003/17 a-bbb

Assortment of fifty-three smooth wooden cylindrical sticks with line markings and rings around the circumference of each stick.

Culture
Northwest Coast
Material
wood and paint
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
View Item Record
Gambling Game SticksNb642 a-m

Set of cylindrical gambling sticks with knobs on each end. (a) has three evenly spaced red lines around the circumference, at centre, crossed by a dark stain and three dark spots on one side. (b) has three evenly spaced thin black lines at centre and spots to one side. (c) has three evenly spaced red lines, a black line at one side and several spots at opposite end. One spot towards lines side. (d) has a black, red, then black line towards one end. (e) has three closely spaced thin black lines to one side; dark stains on this end. (f) has four red lines near centre; (g) has three black lines at centre with a black and a red shadow-like stains diagonally across centre; (h) has three faint red lines, evenly spaced at centre; (i) is stained red on one end with a black line towards centre and a shadowy black stain diagonally around centre. (j) has three red line near centre, a fourth red line near red stained end. Two white paint spots at this end. (k) has three red lines evenly spaced at centre and two black lines to one side. Stains near centre and white paint spots to one end. (l) has five spaced lines from centre, the outer two are thicker. (m) is undecorated.

Culture
Northwest Coast
Material
pigment and maple wood ?
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
View Item Record
Gambling Game SticksNb647 a-i

Game sticks composed of nine cylindrical sticks that have a small, raised round knob at each end, and faint black and red lines on a polished surface: a) one thin black line at one end, three equidistant thin red lines at centre, black staining; b) two thin black lines at one end, three equidistant red lines at centre, light black staining; c) plain, no design; d) plain, no design; e) three thin red equidistant lines at centre, three faint, red diagonal lines equally spaced over surface; f) thick black lines at one end, three thin, equidistant black lines at centre, light black staining around one end; g) slightly off-centre, thick black line is bordered by thin red lines; h) series of lines, one thin red, one thick black, thin red, thick red, two thin red; i) thick black lines border two wide red bands.

Culture
Northwest Coast
Material
pigment and maple wood ?
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
View Item Record
Gambling Game SticksA7299

Set of twenty-one uniform, polished sticks shaped like cigarillos (a-u). Small, rectangular piece of inlaid abalone shell on one (a); one is split but secured with nail (b). Faint bands in black and red drawn around the centre of many.

Culture
Northwest Coast
Material
wood, abalone shell and metal
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
View Item Record
Gambling Game SticksA8349 a-qq

Forty three bone game sticks: one stick (part a) has three inscribed lines on the centre with an additional five inscribed lines near one end while a circular shell ? inlay is in between; a second stick (part b) has two inscribed lines with one at either end; a third stick (part c) has one inscribed line on the centre; thirty nine sticks (parts d-pp) have three inscribed lines on the centre of each stick; and another stick (part qq) is plain.

Culture
Gitxsan
Material
bone ?
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
View Item Record
Gambling Game SticksA2114

Set of fifty-five uniform polished sticks (a-ccc); cylindrical and light tan in colour. All have three incised lines in centre. Some have small burnt markings or designs.

Culture
Northwest Coast
Material
wood
Made in
British Columbia, Canada ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
View Item Record