. Chess and playing cards. playing-cards),with the Persian word ganj=z treasure prefixed. It may have also been origi-nally Kan-chu-p(di = cards from Kanchu, in the Kansu province. The word ganjifehis in Persian now only employed for European playing-cards (four suits, ace to ten;three picture cards each suit), which, however, are also called varak, while the oldPersian playing-cards are known as varak ids—varak i asanas—or simply as, from da or dsanda, which is played with them. From travelers in Persia in the sev- As an analogue to the rectangular, arrow-derived cards of Eastern Asi

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. Chess and playing cards. playing-cards),with the Persian word ganj=z treasure prefixed. It may have also been origi-nally Kan-chu-p(di = cards from Kanchu, in the Kansu province. The word ganjifehis in Persian now only employed for European playing-cards (four suits, ace to ten;three picture cards each suit), which, however, are also called varak, while the oldPersian playing-cards are known as varak ids—varak i asanas—or simply as, from da or dsanda, which is played with them. From travelers in Persia in the sev- As an analogue to the rectangular, arrow-derived cards of Eastern Asia maybefound in the playingsticks of the northwest coast of America, so the wTooden gam-Id in^-disks of the same Indians may be taken as possible American equivalents ofthi circular cards of India. )S. Mas. Arch., Univ. Penn. ; Six Persian curds similar to those described are figured by Mrs. J. K. Van Rensse-in The Devils Picture Books, London, 1892. Report of U. S. National Museum, 1896.—Culm. Plate

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