. Chess and playing cards. MEN FOR GAME (?) (LION, HARE). Lengths, inches, and 1 inch. Lybian (?), Egypt. Cat. Nos. E. S. 1145, 1147, Museum of Archaeology, University of 1eiinsylvania. animal would be shot. Other determinations of a like character weremade by the position of the bones, one to another, after falling. II. A. Bryden1 describes a Bushman divining for ostriches while onthe hunt by means of three curious looking flat pieces of bone, trian-gular in shape and scored with a rude pattern. Be pulls them from the hide strip on which they are threaded, shakes them rapidlybet
. Chess and playing cards. MEN FOR GAME (?) (LION, HARE). Lengths, inches, and 1 inch. Lybian (?), Egypt. Cat. Nos. E. S. 1145, 1147, Museum of Archaeology, University of 1eiinsylvania. animal would be shot. Other determinations of a like character weremade by the position of the bones, one to another, after falling. II. A. Bryden1 describes a Bushman divining for ostriches while onthe hunt by means of three curious looking flat pieces of bone, trian-gular in shape and scored with a rude pattern. Be pulls them from the hide strip on which they are threaded, shakes them rapidlybetween, his two palms, and casts them upon the earth. 1 Longmans Magazine, CLXXVII, p. 231. CHESS AND PLAYING-CARDS. 817 At the present day the Hottentot children east lots by twigs—that is, if a thingis lost or a theft has been committed, they throw bits of stick and judge of the cul-prit, or of the direction wherein the lost property is to be found, by the arrangementof twigs, and among the Kafrirs bundles of sticks and
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