. Chess and playing cards. ear some The name WdbUndrunh is derived from wobiin, meaning dawn;to which is added a termination signifying anything molded or workedupon by human This system of scoring is identical with that used in Japan with the counting-sticks, or sangi (Chinese, siin muk). One is indicated by a stick arranged Arertically,and live by a stick placed horizontally. A set of sangi in the University Museum ( 18300; (fig. 22), consists of one hundred and twenty-seven little wooden blocks,1 inches in length, and about £ inch square in section. Sangi are,
. Chess and playing cards. ear some The name WdbUndrunh is derived from wobiin, meaning dawn;to which is added a termination signifying anything molded or workedupon by human This system of scoring is identical with that used in Japan with the counting-sticks, or sangi (Chinese, siin muk). One is indicated by a stick arranged Arertically,and live by a stick placed horizontally. A set of sangi in the University Museum ( 18300; (fig. 22), consists of one hundred and twenty-seven little wooden 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 The account of WSbunwrwnk is from an unpublished manuscript by Mr.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 placed in my hands. Prom the fact that white shell beads (wampum) are constantly referred to asbeing used as stakes, not only among the tribes of the Atlantic coast but in the CHESS AND PLAYING-CARDS. 701. Fig. 23. GAMING DISK FOR WOBUNARUNK. Diameter, 1} 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 used. In playing, these dice arethrown from the right hand upon theground and the points are counted accord-ing to the number of marked or unmarkedfaces which fall uppermost. It is cus-tomary for a player to pass his handquickly over the dice, if possible, afterhe has tossed them and before they reachthe ground, in order to secure good shape of the dice is that of a decid-edly flattened hemisphere, the curvedportion being unmarked. The base orflat surface is about the size of a 25-centpiece and presents three figures (fig. 23).Close to its edge there is a circle, touchedat four points by a series of looped curves,which form a kind of cross. Within eachof th
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