Indigenous gamblers

 
Graeber / Wengrow 24: "[W]omen in many indigenous North American societires were inveterate gamblers [...] many of the shells and other exotica discovered in sites halfway across the continent had got there by being endlesly wagered, and lost, in inter-village games"
> from David Graeber and David Wengrow's Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (2021)

> tagged with #objects, #luck, #game, #indigenous_peoples

> created May 10, 2024 at 12:00:36 PM


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