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Chess and playing cards (1898)

Culin, Stewart, 1858-1929, United States National Museum, University of Pennsylvania. University Museum · Washington · leaf 76

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ll of hisspecimens are perforated and used as pendants on the bottom of per-sonal ornaments and parts of clothing. Prof. Benjamin Sharp, of the Academy of Natural Science, tells methat he saw the carved water birds used as a game, being tossed andallowed to fall by Eskimo of St. Lawrence Bay,… … Fig. 45. WOODEN 15LOCKS, SAID TO HE USED IN GAME. Length, 1* inches.Northwest Arctic Coast. Cat. No. 7404, U.S.N.M. representations of men, women, walrus, seal, bears, and dogs are partof the domestic outfit of every well regulated family.1 I understand that tho leg hones of the arctic fox are…

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

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