A Plains child's pin and bone game with three pierced bones attached to a buckskin thread and a...

A Plains child's pin and bone game

with three pierced bones attached to a buckskin thread and a string of red and blue beads and a coiled metal spike,

the spike 21.5cm long.

A variation of the popular cup and ball game, where the bones would be tossed and caught on the pin.

cf. Charles Miles. Indian & Eskimo Artifacts of North America, p.207, pl.10.5 - 10.7.

Provenance

The Gotileb collection, Sotheby's, New York, 1970.

Larry Franks, New Mexico.

The Ian West Collection.