Native American Clay Marbles
No one knows exactly when the first marbles were invented but they date back to the times of the ancient egyptians greeks and romans who played with marbles made of stone clay or polished nuts.
Native american clay marbles. Native american game balls clay marbles hammerstones and stone artifacts has 2 319 members. Marbles began to be mass produced in america in the early 1860 s. Affordable glass marbles were first made in the 19th century when a special pair of scissors that. Fin vince 2 959.
The use of marbles in playing games has been around since the time of the egyptians. Cherokee marbles is a similar game to the rolley hole marbles played by anglo americans in kentucky and tennessee though the dimensions are different and rolley hole uses three holes instead of five. On october 16 2014 i found a native american game ball while while metal detecting in southern ohio. More recently the game has been introduced into the public schools in northeast oklahoma.
Oct 24 2017 clay and stone marbles have been found in native american sites and burials. Marbles have been found in many native american and colonial america archaeology sites. Marbles continued to be popular even during the middle ages when children were not encouraged to play games. Marbles are simply little spherical balls used by children and adults to play a range of games.
This group is designed to share pictures info and opinions on native american game balls clay marbles and hammerstones. Stash of clay marbles found bottle digging duration. Well i don t know if native american children played with marbles or not but as far as clay marbles go manufactured mainly in the last part of the nineteenth and the early part of the twentieth century they are probably the latest of what are considered antique marbles and the most numerous. Ringers is played at the national marbles tournament at left held over four days in june since 1922 in wildwood new jersey with winners in both the boys and girls divisions since 1948 the.
Clay marbles have been found in egyptian tombs native american burial grounds and the ancient aztec pyramids.