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Object Details
- Culture/People
- Mi'kmaq (Micmac)
- Collector
- Frederick Johnson (Fred Johnson/Frederick M. Johnson), Non-Indian, 1904-1994
- Collection History
- Collected in 1930 by anthropologist Frederick Johnson (1904-1994) during fieldwork sponsored by MAI.
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- Catalog Number
- 17/6520
- Barcode
- 176520.000
- Object Type
- Games, Toys, Gambling
- Native Term
- wál'tes-
- Object Name
- Dice/Die
- Media/Materials
- Animal Bone, pigment/pigments
- Techniques
- Incised, painted, carved
- Place
- Whycocomagh Reserve (Waycobah); Inverness County; Nova Scotia; Canada
- Island Name
- Cape Breton Island
- See related items
- Mi'kmaq (Micmac)
- Games, Toys, Gambling
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Record ID
- NMAI_189034
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ws6ad383afd-3eb3-42dd-8551-e054faf638d6
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