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Object Name	game ball and stick,game sticks and cards, throwing stick
Tribe	Omaha
Object Type	game components
Description	See notes
Museum	Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Ethnologisches Museum, Berlin, Germany
Catalog Number	2225a,b, 2226a-g, 2227
Primary Material	wood
Subject	recreation
Year of Coll/Manuf	1898ca
Notes	"Implements for games. The Ta-be or ball...is struck by the Ta-be'-ga-thi or crooked stick, fringed at the straight end to prevent its slipping out of the hand when giving the blow. In the game, which takes its name from the Ball, Ta-be, the players are divided into two parties, to one side belongs the Ball and it is the aim of this group to strike the Ball to the goal, and of the other side to interfere and to prevent its reaching that point (La Flesche 1898:17-18)"The bundle of striped sticks…are wooden representatives of bones, ribs of the buffalo, with which this game was formerly played. The name, Wa-hi'ga-thnu-gi-dhe or bone slides, of the long sticks, reveals the fact that it has been transferred from one form to another. In the game two or more can play on a side, the game is won by the lad who is able to throw his stick the farthest, and to him belong all the sticks used by the other players. The game is played by boys. The different ways in which the stick can be thrown
Provenance	Francis La Flesche
State of Coll/Manuf	Nebraska
Collection	Omaha Indian Heritage Project

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