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Chess and playing cards (1898)

Culin, Stewart, 1858-1929, United States National Museum, University of Pennsylvania. University Museum · Washington · leaf 150

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stick with notches(fig. 88), used in the Tewan game, suggests the probability that these painted sticksreplaced others wrapped with colored thread or fabric. Compare with the ancientChinese scepter (iig. 126; banded with live colors by being wrapped with coloredcords. CHESS AND PLAYING-CARDS. 777… … Fig.105. SET OF SACRIFICIAL CANES FOR SHO-I.I-WE. (lieverse.) Cat. >. 20031, Museum of Archaeology, University of Pennsylvania. reed are painted as shown in fig. 105, and the opposite rounded sidesscratched with transverse lines and burned, as shown in fig. 106. These were employed, according to…

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

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