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Chess and playing cards (1898)

Culin, Stewart, 1858-1929, United States National Museum, University of Pennsylvania. University Museum · Washington · leaf 63

An illustration from Chess and playing cards, 1898, leaf 63
inches. -Passamaquoddy Indians, Blaine. From sketch by Mrs. W. W. Brown. the dish firmly in the hands and striking down hard on the cushion (tig. 29). Forcounting in this game there are forty eight small sticks, almost ;> inches in length,named ha-f/d-ta-md-fftiiil; lour somewhat larger, named… … All the sticks are placed in a pile. The disks are put in the dish without order;each contestant can play while he wins, but, on his missing, the other takes the dish.Turning all the disks hut one, the player takes three small sticks; twice in succes-sion, nine sticks; three times in succession,…

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

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