Native American Marbles

On october 16 2014 i found a native american game ball while while metal detecting in southern ohio.

Native american marbles. This group is designed to share pictures info and opinions on native american game balls clay marbles and hammerstones. Moqui marbles in place in the navajo sandstone snow canyon state park sw utah. Unfollow native american marbles to stop getting updates on your ebay feed. 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.

American indian also called indian native american indigenous american aboriginal american amerindian or amerind member of any of the aboriginal peoples of the western hemisphere. The larger the marble set collected the larger the score. Informally they are called moqui marbles and are believed to represent an extension of hopi native american traditions regarding ancestor worship. Clay marbles have been found in egyptian tombs native american burial grounds and the ancient aztec pyramids.

A marble set is a group of identical marbles connected to each other left and right or up and down. Marbles playing the game the object of the game is to collect marble sets. The navajo sandstone is also well known among rockhounds for its hundreds of thousands of iron oxide concretions. Ohio arrowhead hunting bottle digging vintage marbles history documentary american treasure duration.

Eskimos inuit and yupik yupiit and aleuts are often excluded from this category because their closest genetic and cultural relations were and are with. Native american game balls clay marbles hammerstones and stone artifacts has 2 319 members. Once you ve loaded the game by clicking play above click new game. Early europe marbles continued to be popular even during the middle ages when children were not encouraged to play games.

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