The Game of Lehallum, Vancouver Island

Artist Paul Kane (Canadian, 1810 - 1871)

Date1847

Mediumwatercolor and pencil on paper

Dimensions5 3/8 x 9 1/2 inches (13.7 x 24.1 cm)

Credit LineBequest of H.J. Lutcher Stark, 1965

Object number31.78.25

ClassificationsPaintings

Label Text"The game is called lehallum,and is played with ten small circular pieces of wood, one of which is marked black; these pieces are shuffled about rapidly by the player between two bundles of frayed cedar bark. His opponent suddenly stops his shuffling, and endeavours to guess in which bundle the blackened piece is concealed. They are so passionately fond of this game that they frequently pass two or three consecutive days and nights at it without ceasing." Kane, Wanderings, Chapter XIV

ProvenanceArtist; by descent to his grandson, Paul Kane III [1889-1958], Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada; purchased September 17, 1957 through (Edward Eberstadt & Sons, New York, New York) by H.J. Lutcher Stark [1887-1965]; bequeathed September 2, 1965 to the Nelda C. and H.J. Lutcher Stark Foundation; accessioned to the Stark Museum of Art

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