Cribbage Board with Incised Design

1904

Greatest Preserved Dimensions
10 x 3 x 1.125 in. (25.4 x 7.62 x 2.858 cm)

This object has the following keywords:

• Alaskan - Culture or condition of citizenship or residency of the U.S. state of Alaska.
• Arctic - In the context of art and culture, the culture of the indigenous peoples of the northern polar region of the earth, including the Arctic Ocean and the northernmost parts of Asia, Europe, and North America. The term may also refer to the animals, plants, climate, geology, geography, and oceanography of the area.
• cribbage boards - Boards, often long narrow rectangles of wood, for keeping score during the game of cribbage and having holes in the upper surface into which pegs are placed to mark the score and progress of the players.
• Native American - Typically reserved to refer narrowly to the cultures of the native peoples of the United States and Canada, excluding the Eskimos and Aleuts. For the indigenous peoples of Canada use the term "First Nations." For the broader concept of the cultures of any native peoples of Central America, South America, North America, or the West Indies who are considered to belong to the Mongoloid division of the human species, use "Amerindian (culture)."
• North American - Refers to the cultures of the continent of North America, which is bounded by the Atlantic Ocean, the Pacific Ocean, the Arctic Circle, and Central America. In classifications schemes based on physical geography, Central America, and North America are parts of the same continent.
• pigment - Any relatively insoluble organic, inorganic, natural or artificial substance that imparts a color to another substance or mixture and always appears as the same specific color when viewed in white light. It is the constituent of paint or ink that provides the color. Distinguished from a dye, which is soluble in the vehicle, a pigment is insoluble in the vehicle, but instead is held in a suspension.
• walrus ivory - Material comprising the dentin of walrus tusks.

• Greatest Preserved Dimensions Dimensions: 10 x 3 x 1.125 in. (25.4 x 7.62 x 2.858 cm)

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