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Old Man's Playing Ground: Gaming and Trade on the Plains/Plateau Frontier (Mercury Series: Archaeology Papers)
Yanicki
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Description for Old Man's Playing Ground: Gaming and Trade on the Plains/Plateau Frontier (Mercury Series: Archaeology Papers)
Paperback. Oral traditions of the Piikani, together with textual records spanning centuries, reveal the enduring cultural significance of prehistoric intergroup trading and gaming grounds. Series: Mercury Series. Num Pages: 312 pages, 19 tables, 35 colour illustrations, 11 black & white halftones, 10 graphs, 12 maps. BIC Classification: HDD; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 171 x 14. Weight in Grams: 600.
When Hudson's Bay Company surveyor Peter Fidler made contact with the Ktunaxa at the Gap of the Oldman River in the winter of 1792, his Piikani guides brought him to the river's namesake. These were the playing grounds where Napi, or Old Man, taught the various nations how to play a game as a way of making peace. In the centuries since, travellers, adventurers, and scholars have recorded several accounts of Old Man's Playing Ground and of the hoop-and-arrow game that was played there. Although it has been destroyed, much can be learned from an interdisciplinary study of Old Man's ... Read more
When Hudson's Bay Company surveyor Peter Fidler made contact with the Ktunaxa at the Gap of the Oldman River in the winter of 1792, his Piikani guides brought him to the river's namesake. These were the playing grounds where Napi, or Old Man, taught the various nations how to play a game as a way of making peace. In the centuries since, travellers, adventurers, and scholars have recorded several accounts of Old Man's Playing Ground and of the hoop-and-arrow game that was played there. Although it has been destroyed, much can be learned from an interdisciplinary study of Old Man's ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Ottawa Press
Condition
New
Series
Mercury Series
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
Ottawa, Canada
ISBN
9780776621388
SKU
V9780776621388
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Ref
99-15
About Yanicki
Edmonton-based archaeologist Gabriel Yanicki first began tracing the footsteps of HBC explorer Peter Fidler in 1998. In 2009, Yanicki returned to his original passion with his Master's studies at the University of Alberta. Prehistoric gambling and games continues to be a focus of his doctoral research with the Institute of Prairie Archaeology in the Department of Anthropology at the University ... Read more
Reviews for Old Man's Playing Ground: Gaming and Trade on the Plains/Plateau Frontier (Mercury Series: Archaeology Papers)
Just as the intersection of the topographic, environmental, and cultural regions of Plains and Plateau provide the physical focal point for Gabriel Yanicki's study in Old Man's Playing Ground: Gaming and Trade on the Plains/Plateau Frontier, so, too, does he deft ly employ this framework to highlight the interfacing of history, ethnography, archaeology, and environmental studies as essential strands in ... Read more