• Title
  Item 02: Dice [i.e. die] made by prisoners
• Call number
  R 574
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  after 1882
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Objects
• Reference code
  430592
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Objects - 1 carved bone die, wheel-shaped with 2 flat sides. The circumference has 8 flat sides on which dots representing numbers have been incised. There is a hole through the middle - 3.3 x 3.3 x 1.7 cm.
  
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• General note
  
  Donor claims the die was made by convicts (i.e. prisoners) at Narrabri Gaol
  Undated. Dated from date Narrabri Gaol opened
  Related Manuscript Collection: ML MSS 2424
  Digital order no:Album ID : 823983
• Topic
  convicts
  games
  leisure
  manufactured objects
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Bite the Blue Sky - Museum of Brisbane (September 2003 - May 2004)
  Gambling in Australia - Powerhouse Museum
  Stranger than fiction - November 2009 - May 2010

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