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Chess and playing cards (1898)

Culin, Stewart, 1858-1929, United States National Museum, University of Pennsylvania. University Museum · Washington · leaf 285

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t-ter to block him. The board and men appear to be anexpression of the same cosmieal ideasas are found in the game of Nyout, therebeing four men associated with eachside of the square. The traditions ofthe game still more closely identify itwith the Korean Nyout. A Chinese form of the game is… … Fig. 179. SHAP LUK KON TSEUNG KWAN. China. After Hnnlv. i . Korscheld, Das Go-Spiel, Mittheilungen d. dentschen Gesellschaft fiir Natur.and Volkerknnde Ostasiens, III, pp. 21-24.it. No. 7090, Mus. Arch., Univ. Penn. Cat. No. L7832, Mus. Arch., Univ. Penn. ■Anmerk. in Beziehnng auf das Schach- u.…

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

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