Six Mississippian Pottery & Stone Game Discoidals

Native American, Midwestern United States, Mississippian culture, ca. 900 to 1400 CE. A collection of five ceramic and one stone discoidals, each carefully shaped into rounded discs, reflecting a long-standing Native American tradition associated with gaming, ritual, and social exchange. Ceramic examples were typically fashioned from broken or discarded pottery vessels, then chipped and ground into form, with edges left rough or smoothed through abrasion. Stone examples were shaped from river-worn material and pecked and ground into thick, balanced forms. Discoidals are widely recovered from major Mississippian centers including Moundsville and Etowah, where they appear in domestic areas, elite mound contexts, and occasional caches. Long regarded as gaming pieces, they are frequently linked to chunkey, a widespread ceremonial game. Size of largest: 2" Diameter (5.1 cm) Item # 199392

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