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Pair of wooden stickball sticks with leather netting / Jimmie Deere

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A pair of ball sticks in the Creek style common in the 20th century. They are well carved and the holes (around the cup) are burned rather than drilled. The "net" is strung with deerskin that has seems halfway tanned (i.e. half rawhide). The lace used in netting the cup is wrapped around the whole stick at the base of the cup. An additional wrapping is at the place where the shorter bent section concludes against the handle. Below this point the handle is a single solid round piece.

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Title(s): 
Pair of wooden stickball sticks with leather netting
Creator(s): 
Jimmie Deere (Artist)
Culture: 
Native American; Muscogee (Creek)
Date: 
1998
Materials/Techniques: 
wood, hide
Classification: 
Object Type: 
Credit Line: 
Purchased with funds provided by The Fund for Folk Culture/Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Community Folklife Program
Accession No: 
84.2946a-b
Previous Number(s): 
TL1998.13.3; 84.2946 a-b
Department: 
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