. Chess and playing cards. oue side burnt longi-tudinally, the other half of the same side unburnt, but traversed by three smallburnt lines equidistant about 1 millimeter wide running across their short remaining and only single seed has an hourglass figure burnt on one side, thecontraction in the figure corresponding to the loug diameter of the seed. They areall of the same size, about 16 millimeters long, 12 wide, and 7 thick, and are oval,having the outlines and convexity on each side of a diminutive turtle shell. Whenthe Sioux tirst obtained our ordinary playing cards they gave to
. Chess and playing cards. oue side burnt longi-tudinally, the other half of the same side unburnt, but traversed by three smallburnt lines equidistant about 1 millimeter wide running across their short remaining and only single seed has an hourglass figure burnt on one side, thecontraction in the figure corresponding to the loug diameter of the seed. They areall of the same size, about 16 millimeters long, 12 wide, and 7 thick, and are oval,having the outlines and convexity on each side of a diminutive turtle shell. Whenthe Sioux tirst obtained our ordinary playing cards they gave to them, as well as tothe game, the name Jcansu, because they were used by the whites and themselvesfor the same purpose as their original Jcansu. The men do not use the seeds or theoriginal Jcansu now, but they substitute our cards. The women, however, do use thegame at the present time. When a ration ticket was issued to them they gave itthe name of Jcansu, because it was a card; so also to a postal card, business card, or. Fig. 85. BASKET FOR PLUM STONE GAME. Diameter at top, 8 Sioux, South Dakota. Cat. No. 10443, Museum o£ Archaeology, University of Pennsylvania. anything of the description of a card or ticket; a railroad, street-car, milk, store,or circus ticket would be called a Jcansu ; so that the evolution of this term as appliedto a ticket is a little interesting. The description of the game Jcansu, as related by the Sioux is as follows: Anynumber of persons may play, and they call the game Jcansu Jcute, which literallymeans to shoot the seeds. When two persons play, or four that are partners,only six of the seeds are used, the hourglass or king Jcansu being eliminated. Theking is used when a number over two are playing and each one for himself. Thethree-line seeds are called sixes, the one-line fours, those that are all blacktens. When two play for a wager they each put sixteen small sticks, stones,corn, peas, or what not into a common pile between them,
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