. Chess and playing cards. to is that of la platte, described by various travelers (asthe platter or dish game); this is played by the women, children, and old men. who,like grasshoppers, crawl out to the circus to bask in the sun, probably covered onlywith an old buffalo robe. ESKIMAUAN STOCK. Speaking of the Central Eskimo, Dr. Franz Boas- says:A game similar to dice, called tingmiujang, i. e., images of birds, is frequentlyplayed. A set of about lifteen figures, like those represented in tig. 12, belong tthis game; some representing birds, others men and women. The players --it arounda boar
. Chess and playing cards. to is that of la platte, described by various travelers (asthe platter or dish game); this is played by the women, children, and old men. who,like grasshoppers, crawl out to the circus to bask in the sun, probably covered onlywith an old buffalo robe. ESKIMAUAN STOCK. Speaking of the Central Eskimo, Dr. Franz Boas- says:A game similar to dice, called tingmiujang, i. e., images of birds, is frequentlyplayed. A set of about lifteen figures, like those represented in tig. 12, belong tthis game; some representing birds, others men and women. The players --it arounda board or a piece of leather and the figures are shaken in the hand and thrownupward. On falling, some stand upright, others lie flat on the back or on the standing upright belong to that player whom they face; Bometimes they areso thrown that they all belong to the one that tossed them up. The player-throw by turns until the last figure is taken up, the one getting the greatest num-ber of litrures beinir the Fig. 42. IVORY IMAGES USED AS DUE IN GAME OE TTNGMIUJ \\o. Cential Eskimo. From Sixth Annua] Report of the Bureau of Ethnology. 1 Elliott Coues, The Expedition of Zebulon Montgomery Pike, New York, -The Central Eskimo, Sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, Wash-ington, 1888, p. 567. 718 RKPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1896. Mr. Jobn Murdoch describes similar objects which be purchased atPlover Bay, eastern Siberia, in 1881 (fig. 43). They were supposed tobe merely works of art. Referring to the account given by Dr. Boasof their use as a game, be says:
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