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Dice. Golds; Nanais

Title:

Dice

Ethnic groups:

Golds; Nanais

Territory:

river Bikin, Ussuri Krai, village Tugulu

Date:

late 19th - early 20th cemtury

Material:

Bone

Dimensions:

length 5.0

Collectors-person:
Arseniev Vladimir K.
Number:

РЭМ 1871-15

Annotation:

Dice made of musk deer’s knee joint for the “altson” game Made from hind knee joints of a musk deer or wild goat. Each player has 4 dice in hand. They throw them on the table and look how the dice fell. If it is two outer sides up, this is considered a win.

Albums:
“... You can rely on me”: Vladimir Arseniev’s collections in the Russian Museum of Ethnography
Rus:
Кость для игры. Гольды (нанайцы); нанайцы