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Game of Lotto (Cards and Discs)
Accession # 44.195.6
Title Game of Lotto (Cards and Discs)
Date 1880s
Medium Tin, glass
Dimensions card: 10 3/4 x 7 5/16 in. (27.3 x 18.5 cm) disk diameter: 1 3/8 in. (3.5 cm)
Credit Line Museum Expedition 1944, Purchased with funds given by the Estate of Warren S.M. Mead
Location Visible Storage: Case 39, Shelf A (Native American Art)
Description Lotto game consisting of 15 "cards" and 96 disks. Each card backed and framed with tin and covered with glass. Divided into 25 squares, with pictures of such subjects as: a siren playing a guitar, a compass, a mandolin, a candle, a sow, etc. Pictures vary in each card although many of the same subjects appear. Circular disks each have a picture similar to those on "cards". Each disk is backed and framed with tin and covered with glass.