. Chess and playing cards. Fig. OF BUTTONS FOR DICE IN WOLTES TAKUN. Diameter, g Indians, Nova Scotia. Cat. No. 18850, Museum of Aivha-ology, University of Fig. 19. WOODEN BOWL FOR W5LT*B TAKlNN. Diameter, \\\ Inches. Micmac Indians, Nova Scotia. Cat. No. 18850, Museum of Archeology, Iniv. rsity of Pennsylvania. game of unknown antiquity, undoubtedly of pre-Columbian 01 igin. [t is played upona circular wooden dish-properly rock maple—almost exactly a foot m diamt 1 Micmac Customs andTraditions, The American Anthropologist, January, 1895, p. 31. 698 REPORT OF
. Chess and playing cards. Fig. OF BUTTONS FOR DICE IN WOLTES TAKUN. Diameter, g Indians, Nova Scotia. Cat. No. 18850, Museum of Aivha-ology, University of Fig. 19. WOODEN BOWL FOR W5LT*B TAKlNN. Diameter, \\\ Inches. Micmac Indians, Nova Scotia. Cat. No. 18850, Museum of Archeology, Iniv. rsity of Pennsylvania. game of unknown antiquity, undoubtedly of pre-Columbian 01 igin. [t is played upona circular wooden dish-properly rock maple—almost exactly a foot m diamt 1 Micmac Customs andTraditions, The American Anthropologist, January, 1895, p. 31. 698 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1896. hollowed to a depth of about finch in the center. This dish plays an important Bolein ihe older legends of the Micinacs. Filled with water and left over night, itsappearance next morning serves to reveal hidden knowledge of past, present, andfuture. It is also said to have been used as a vessel upon an arkite trip. The diceof caribou bone are six in number, having Hat faces and rounded sides. One face isplain; the other bears a dotted cross (lig. 18). AY In u all the marked or all theunmarked faces are turned up there is a count of five points; if five marke
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