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Chess and playing cards (1898)

Culin, Stewart, 1858-1929, United States National Museum, University of Pennsylvania. University Museum · Washington · leaf 56

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blocks,1 inches in length, and about £ inch square in section. Sangi are, or rather wereemployed in Japan in the higher mathematics, the use of the soroban or abacus notbeing customary with scholars. The account of WSbunwrwnk is from an unpublished manuscript by Mr. Hager,which lie courteously… … Fig. 23. GAMING DISK FOR WOBUNARUNK. Diameter, 1} inches.Miomac Indians, Xova Scotia. From :i drawing by Stansbury Hager. Tbe outfit for the game consists simply of six dice, made from mooseor caribou bone, though one Micmac at least is positive that the teethonly of these animals can properly be…

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

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