Bone Dice
Bone Dice
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- Description
- Gambling usually was banned aboard whaling ships, on the grounds that it could cause too much strife among the crew. But “bones” or dice were easily concealed from a ship’s officers, and crews found out-of-the way places to spend their free time wagering their earnings, tobacco or other assets.
- Object Name
- Dice, Ivory
- dice, ivory (pair)
- date made
- 19th Century
- ID Number
- AG.024849.3
- catalog number
- 24849.3
- accession number
- 1875.4423
- Expansion and Reform
- Civil War and Reconstruction
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- Exhibition
- On the Water
- Exhibition Location
- National Museum of American History
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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