Tribal Art & Antiquities - 19th September 2018
Lot 224
A Plains child's pin and bone game with three pierced bones attached to a buckskin thread and a...
Estimate £50 - £100 | Hammer £70
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Description
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.