dominoes

Full set of 28 dominoes made of bone. The two halves of each domino are marked out with incised lines filled with red pigment, and they are numbered with circular depressions filled with black pigment. Each domino is unique, and the set is numbered with all possible combinations of two ends from zero to six spots.

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