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Identifier: chessplayingcard00culi (find matches)
Title: Chess and playing cards
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Culin, Stewart, 1858-1929 United States National Museum University of Pennsylvania. University Museum
Subjects: Cotton States Exposition (1895 : Atlanta, Ga.) Chess Playing cards Games
Publisher: Washington
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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Fij:. 116.SCHEME OF PLATE 44, FEJERVARY CODEX. After Cyrus Thomas. El jnego que Hainan del Patoli es muy general en ellos, y corresponde al de losnaipes o dados. Torque en lugar dellos usan de unas quatro canitas cortas, rajadas,menores de un genie, y en ellas tienen unas ngurillas y puntos, que les da el valor,dperdid;i. Kstas quaudo juegan las botan, arrojandolas sobre una pedreeita, paraqne salten, y caigau los puntos a su ventura, y gane, o pierda el que las juega,rayando en la tierra los puutos que ganan, hasta cnmplir el numero de la apuesta,que se hazen alii presente. Esta es de sartas de caracolillos de mar que ellos esti-man, y con que se adornan. Tambien sirve de posta, arcos o flechas, cnchillos, oachnelas qne alcausau: y de lo mismo suelen ser las apuestas de otros juegos.Perez de Kibas, Historia de los Triumphos, Lib. 1, Cap. IV, Madrid, 1645. Report of U. S. National Museum, 1896. — Culin. Plate 17.
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Plate 44, Fejervary Codex. CHESS AND PLAYING-CAKDS. 803 In searching for remains of the cane game in old Mexico, the writerwas deeply impressed with the many points of resemblance between thegaming circuit as described by Mr. Dashing as used in Sho-li-tce, andsome of the diagrammatic paintings in the codices, leading him to theconclusion that the purpose of the latter was identical. As an illustra-tion, the figure from the Fejervary codex (Plate 17) may be regarded a^a divinatory, calendrical counting circuit, the forty beans or corn offour colors of the Zufii Sho li-we having their counterparts in the fourcolored arms of the cross—red, yellow, blue, and green—marked withsmall circles. Again the entire design of the Mexican figure will beseen to represent an animal or the hide of an animal, comparable withthe buffalo hide of the Zufii game. In the center of the Mexican

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