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Bone game at the Swinomish smokehouse, January 22, 1946
Title
Bone
game
at the
Swinomish
smokehouse
,
January
22
,
1946
Studio Name
Seattle
Post-Intelligencer
Studio Location
United
States--Washington
(State)--Seattle
Date
1946
Notes
The
January
22
,
1946
Treaty
Day
celebration
at the
Swinomish
Reservation
at
La
Conner
featured
the
gambling
game
known
as
slahal
or the
bone
game.
Two
teams
of
players
sat
in
lines
facing
one
another
, with
one
player
holding
the
pair
of
bones
and the
others
singing
and
beating
time
with
sticks
and a
drum.
This
photograph
shows
one
line
of
players.
Abel
D.
Joe
of
Swinomish
sits
to the
left
of a
group
of
tall
scoring
sticks
placed
in the
ground.
He
chants
while
holding
one
of the
game
bones
in his
open
hand.
Two
drummers
sit
to the
left;
other
players
sing
and
drum
the
floor
with
sticks.
Subjects
Joe
,
Abel
D.
(Swinomish
Indian);
Treaty
Day
(1946
:
Swinomish
Indian
Reservation
,
Wash.);
Swinomish
Indians--Social
life;
Gambling--Washington
(State)--Swinomish
Indian
Reservation;
Commemoration--Washington
(State)--Swinomish
Indian
Reservation;
Drums
Location Depicted
Washington
(State)--Swinomish
Indian
Reservation
Object Type
Safety
film
negatives
Physical Description
Safety
film
negative
Negative Number
PI-23871
Digital Collection
American Indians of the Pacific Northwest Images
Collection
Seattle
Post-Intelligencer
Collection
Repository
Museum of History and Industry, Seattle
Ordering Information
To order a reproduction or inquire about permissions see:
http://content.lib.washington.edu/cdm4/ordering.php
Acquisition
Gift
of the
Seattle
Post-Intelligencer
,
1981;
acc.
no.PI-23871
Restrictions
http://content.lib.washington.edu/aipnw/copyrights.html
Transmission Data
Image/JPEG
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