Playing cards
Object Details
- Collection History
- Collection history unknown; formerly in the collection of Captain Ezra Wolcott Kingsbury (1830-1900), who operated a trading post at San Carlos in the later 1860s; given or transferred by Captain Kingsbury to General William Nicholson Grier (1812-1885) at an unknown date; inherited by General Grier's daughter, Anna Grier Campbell (1846-1917) and then by her son Robert C. Campbell (1891-1966); donated to MAI by Robert C. Campbell in 1963 in memory of his grandfather.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Date created
- circa 1850
- Catalog Number
- 23/2850
- Barcode
- 232850.000
- Culture/People
- probably San Carlos Apache (attributed)
- Possible collector
- Captain Ezra Wolcott Kingsbury (E. W. Kingsbury), Non-Indian, 1830-1900
- Previous owner
- General William Nicholson Grier, Non-Indian, 1812-1885
- Anna Grier Campbell (Mrs. George W. Campbell, Jr.), Non-Indian, 1846-1917
- Robert C. Campbell, Non-Indian, 1891-1966
- Donor
- Robert C. Campbell, Non-Indian, 1891-1966
- Honoree
- General William Nicholson Grier, Non-Indian, 1812-1885
- Object Type
- Games, Toys, Gambling
- Object Name
- Playing cards
- Media/Materials
- Rawhide, paint
- Techniques
- Painted
- Place
- Arizona; USA
- See related items
- San Carlos Apache
- Games, Toys, Gambling
- Record ID
- NMAI_248044
