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Chinese games with dice and dominoes (1895)

Culin, Stewart, 1858-1929. [from old catalog] · Washington, Govt. print. off. · leaf 75

An illustration from Chinese games with dice and dominoes, 1895, leaf 75
ames of the classes ofhuman society found among the Arabs beingreplaced in China with the terms for the cosmicpowers: Heaven (six), Earth (one),and Man (four), and the Harmony (three-one), that unites them. It will also be observed that theuse of 2 dice, which appears to follow tbat of the natural… … Fig.28. STONE DIE: NAUCBATIS,EGYPT. From specimen in Museum of Univer-sity of Pennsylvania. * If a Chinese die be thrued ace up and revolved toward the person holding it sothat the Hwo, five, and six are disclosed in succession, it will be found thatthe three is usually to the left and the four to…

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