Culin, Stewart, 1858-1929, United States National Museum, University of Pennsylvania. University Museum · Washington · leaf 222
session. CHESS AND PLAYING-CARDS. 825 and Cat. No. 278 with an octagonal brass placque (fig. 1 16), 3j iuches indiameter, with six concentric and thirty-two radial divisions having thenames of as many oriental cities in the outer row, of conditions of lifeand fortune in the next inner, and personal… … Fig.145. BRASS PLACQUE ACCOMPANYING DICE FOR FORTUNE-TELLING. Diameter, 3J inches.Persia. Cat. No. 283. Sommerville collection. Museum of Archaeology, University ofPennsylvania. five are opposite, and the two and five are red. Used in the game ofChausar (No. 40). A similar die was used in…
Cotton States Exposition (1895 : Atlanta, Ga.) · Chess · Playing cards · Games
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