A TLINGIT SET OF WOOD GAMBLING STICKS
A TLINGIT SET OF WOOD GAMBLING STICKS

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A TLINGIT SET OF WOOD GAMBLING STICKS
consisting of 61 cylindrically carved wood sticks, finely painted in red and black with geometrical and formline motifs, contained in a hide roll up pouch secured with a long hide tie
Length: 5 in. (12.8 cm.) each, approximately
Provenance
Collected by William Henry Corlies and his wife, Emily Goddard, who lived and worked as missionaries in Alaska in the 1870s.
Further details
For a similar example, see Fane, et. al., 1991, p. 258, #272.

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