. Chess and playing cards. eight squares in each arm, withpictures of women, covered with mica, at each of the four ends. Itwill be observed that the game is known in Persia by its Hindu method of play, if it differs from that in India, is unknown to 1 Cat. Nos. 18592, 18593, 18594, Mus. Arch., Univ. Penn. 2 James Ceorge Scott, The Barman, His Life and Notions, London, 1882, II, p. 83. I at. Nos. KilTfi, 16477,16482, Mus. Arch., Univ. Penn. From the exhibitot the Gov-ernment of Ceylon at the Columbian Exposition, Chicago.•Cat. No. 18264, Mus. Arch., Univ. Penn. 1 >en. A
. Chess and playing cards. eight squares in each arm, withpictures of women, covered with mica, at each of the four ends. Itwill be observed that the game is known in Persia by its Hindu method of play, if it differs from that in India, is unknown to 1 Cat. Nos. 18592, 18593, 18594, Mus. Arch., Univ. Penn. 2 James Ceorge Scott, The Barman, His Life and Notions, London, 1882, II, p. 83. I at. Nos. KilTfi, 16477,16482, Mus. Arch., Univ. Penn. From the exhibitot the Gov-ernment of Ceylon at the Columbian Exposition, Chicago.•Cat. No. 18264, Mus. Arch., Univ. Penn. 1 >en. A. Houtum Schindler, of Teheran, in reply to a letter of inquiry, writes asfollows: •• Pachirif an Indian game, is seldom played in Persia; in fact, I do not rememberhaving seen it during all my twenty-nine years residence in the country. The Per-sian name of the game is Pachis and Iivhds, the latter evidently a corruption of theformer, the original Indian word. Report of U. S. National Museum, 1896.—Culm. Plate Report of U. 5. National Museum, 1896. -Culin. Plate 31 4 ^1^ <r Board for Pachjs {Pachisi). Length, SOJ inches. Persia. cat. No. 18264, Bluseum of Archaeology, University of Pennsylvania. CHESS AND PLAYING-CARDS. 857 44. Edris a Jin. Edris of the Genii, a game like Pachisi. Druses of Lebanon, Syria. Cloth and cowrie shells used as diceand The board is much more complicated than the preceding, consistingof a large square cotton cloth marked with a parti-colored diagramwith four arms each having four rows of eight squares, each connectedat the ends by a diagonal row of eight squares, the whole forming anoctagonal figure. The inner square, composed of sixteen small squares,is called the serai. The moves are made according to the throws withfour cowries. Each player has three men, other shells, one of whichis called the chief, and the others soldiers. The former are filledwith red sealiug wax, to which colored paper is pasted, distinguishingthem as red
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