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Jeff Brown’s Great Alaska Game Show |
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Jeff Brown’s Great Alaska Game Show entrance |
Decoders |
Story Knifing and Quoits |
Ivory and antler Story Knives |
Seal Through the Hole and Bilboquet |
Game PiecesOn the left carved ivory and walrus teeth toy bird figurines. Front, baleen and sinew toy whale figurines. Right, wood Tlingit Gambling Game. Right back, Nabatuk (spear the whale) children’s game made of seal humerus bone attached with a leather thong to the ankle tendon of a moose, Elim, AK. Center back, Nabatuk made of bone, wood, ivory, and rawhide by Mike Saclamana, King Island. |
High Kick recordsOne-foot high kick record: 9’6” set by Brian Randazzo, 1988 and Jesse Frankson, 2002. |
Athlete doing two-footed high kick |
Front leftIvory Two-Foot Jump by Earl Mayac, King IslandBack LeftLeather with braided yard High-Kick ballCenterInupiaq Foot Ball made of seal skin, walrus gullet, and seal bristles from Point Barrow.Above RightBasket woven grass, seal fur, and cord Yo-Yos from Togiak.Right CenterMukluk Yo-Yo with oogruk, seal skin, and calf skin, by Mrs. Wongtillin, Gambil.Front RightBleached and dyed seal skin, braided sinew, ivory Yo-Yo by Pansy Omwari, Savoonga. |
Mukluk Yo-Yo with oogruk, seal skin, and calf skin, by Mrs. Wongtillin, Gambil. 2000-34-19 |
Eskimo Yo-Yo station |
Second room entrance |
Whale Game |
Checkers |
Blanket Toss Figurines made of ivory, moose horn, seal skin, felt, and caribou fur.Left made by Dwight Milligrock, Nome Center by Frank Illana, King Island Right by Lydia Milligrock Gerton, Diomede, AK |
Blanket Toss, Nome |
Tlingit Gambling Sticks from Sitka and Nazaq (pick-up sticks) made by Old Man Moore, Elim, AK |
Stick and Tlingit Indians gambling, Dyea, AlaskaAlaska State Historical Library – Historical Collections. P171-66 |
Fox and Geese |
North to Alaska |
North to Alaska box cover and game pieces |
The Klondike Game (III-0-962). Board game by Parker Brothers, c. 1900 |
The Klondike Game, game pieces |
Gambler's BoxGift of the Friends of the Alaska State Museum, 1998. 98-12-1. Designed for travel, these boxes often found their way to frontier areas with miners and gamblers. This box opens into a felt-covered playing surface, which are hinged and open to reveal with two velvet-lined compartments for dice, playing cards, and poker chips. The box also contains a .38 caliber revolver, cigar cutter, and whiskey flask. Miniature playing cards are affixed to the playing surface. A badge-shaped metal plate on the interior reads: "F. Houghton/Nome Alaska". |
Walrus ivory cribbage boards and playing cards. |
Ivory Cribbage Board (II-A-6473)
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RightHorsman’s Game of Klondike, c. 1897 by Maraquita BangsFront LeftWhite Pass and Yukon Route Railroad playing cardsBack LeftSeal of the District of Alaska playing cards. |
Horsman’s Game of Klondike spinner and game board. |
Horsman’s Game of Klondike spinner and game pieces. |