The devil's picture-books. A history of playing cards (1890)
Van Rensselaer, John King, Mrs., 1848-1925 · New York : Dodd, Mead and company · leaf 182
agle,and the beetle represent these creatures in anerect or upright attitude, instead of the one natu-ral to the animal. Whether this has some peculiarsignificance or not remains to be proved. The gambling-sticks used by the AlaskaIndians closely resemble those already described;and they also have… … male 21.
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