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Chess and playing cards (1898)

Culin, Stewart, 1858-1929, United States National Museum, University of Pennsylvania. University Museum · Washington · leaf 123

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T. Denig. Each throws in turn against all others, and if the whole of the marked sides or all the fair sides of the sticks are turned up, she is entitled to a successive throw. The game is forty, and they count by small sticks as in the preceding. In fine weather many of these gambling circles can… … Fig. 80. SET OF BONE GAMING STAVES. Length, 8.J inches.Gros Ventres Indians, Dakota. Cat. No. 8425, U.S.N.M. absence to play. Most of the women will gamble off everything they possess, evento the dresses of their children, and the passion appears to be as deeply rooted inthem as in the men. They…

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

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