. Chess and playing cards. Oxford, 1881, p. 193) in a list of games detrimental to the progress of is to say, with a board of sixty-four squares, or one hundred Bquares ; tossingup; removing substances from a heap without shaking the remainder. In Canton, China, children use splints from burnt punk sticks \4ung /,«///.-. Liter-ally, incense feet), one hundred being held in a bunch and allowed to fall, theplayers endeavoring to remove them one at a time from the pile without disturbingthe others, using another stick bent over at the end fox the purpose. Phey call thegame tiii lining
. Chess and playing cards. Oxford, 1881, p. 193) in a list of games detrimental to the progress of is to say, with a board of sixty-four squares, or one hundred Bquares ; tossingup; removing substances from a heap without shaking the remainder. In Canton, China, children use splints from burnt punk sticks \4ung /,«///.-. Liter-ally, incense feet), one hundred being held in a bunch and allowed to fall, theplayers endeavoring to remove them one at a time from the pile without disturbingthe others, using another stick bent over at the end fox the purpose. Phey call thegame tiii lining hrnk. The Chinese at Canton make carved jackstraws, bul I aminformed by Chinese merchants that they are sold only for export. A Bel in theUniversity Museum (Cat. No. 10221) (Plates 3£ onsists of forty-two pi twenty small pointed sticks, twenty miniature weapons and implements, and twohooks for removing the splints. They are made of sandal wood, I inches in Length,and their name is given by the venders as heung Fig. 207. JAPANESE FORTUNE-TELLER WITH ZRICHAKU. After native drawing in Our Neighborhood, by T. A. Pun-ell, rei>«diiced in K Games. REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1896. two sides had lost everything. * * * The game of straw, says Perrot,1 fromwhose account we have made the foregoing digest, is ordinarily held in the cabinsof the chiefs, which are large, and are, so to speak, the Academy of the Savages. Law son - describes it, but in slightly modified form, as follows: •Indian Cards.—Their chiefest game is a sort of Arithmetick, which is managedby a parcel of small split reeds, the thickness of a small Bent. These are made verynit civ. BO that they part, and are tractable in their hands. They are fifty-one innumber,-their length abont 7 inches. When they play, they throw part of them totheir antagonist. The art is to discover, upon sight, how many you have, and whatyon throw to him that plays with you. Some are so expert at their numbers thatthey will
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