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Chess and playing cards (1898)

Culin, Stewart, 1858-1929, United States National Museum, University of Pennsylvania. University Museum · Washington · leaf 113

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he face of the iHk-ak ( sen is up, all others down,or vice versa, he wins four sticks.Whoever wins a stick goes onplaying. When one of the play-ers has obtained all the stickshe wins the game. Nisqualli. Washington.Mr. George Gibbs2 states: The women have a game be-longing properly to themselves.It… … Fig. 70. SET OF BEAVER TEETH DICE. Length, 1$ inches. Thompson River Indians, interior of British Columbia. Cat. No. g^j, American Museum of Natural Ilitory. In his Dictionary of the Xisqualli, the name of the game is given asme-tala, sme-ta-la; the highest or four point of the dice, Ices.…

Cotton States Exposition (1895 : Atlanta, Ga.) · Chess · Playing cards · Games

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