[Bonetools] bone gambling pieces, dice, etc - Cullin Ref

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In a message dated 14/05/2010 06:46:04 GMT Daylight Time, h13017cho at iif.hu  
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Stewart  Culin's 1907 opus: Games of the North American Indians
Googlebooks has at least one volume of the 1992 reprint on limited  preview
_http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=zYI6_uJ66jIC&dq=Stewart+Culin%27s+1907+G
ames+of+the+North+American+Indians_ 
(http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=zYI6_uJ66jIC&dq=Stewart+Culin's+1907+Games+of+the+North+American+Indians) 
 
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Pam Cross
UoBradford, UK
 
 
_Games of the North American Indians:  Games of skill‎_ 
(http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=zYI6_uJ66jIC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Stewart+Culin's+1907+Gam
es+of+the+North+American+Indians&cd=1) 
_Stewart  Culin_ 
(http://books.google.co.uk/books?q=+inauthor:"Stewart+Culin")  - _Games_ (http://books.google.co.uk/books?q=+subject:"Games")  - 1992 
-  846 pages
Volume 1 of this Bison Books edition takes up  games of chance, involving 
guessing and throwing dice.
Limited preview - _About this book_ 
(http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=zYI6_uJ66jIC&dq=Stewart+Culin's+1907+Games+of+the+North+American+Indians)  - 
_More  editions_ 
(http://books.google.co.uk/books?q=editions:ISBN0803263562&id=zYI6_uJ66jIC) 
 
 
Book overview
Games figured prominently in the  myths of North American Indian tribes, 
and also in their ceremonies for  bringing rain and fertility and combating 
misfortune. In his classic  study, originally published in 1907 as a report of 
the Bureau of American  Ethnology, Stewart Culin divided the games played 
by Indian men and women  into two general types. 

Volume 1 of this Bison Books edition takes  up games of chance, involving 
guessing and throwing dice. Culin was able  to show that the games of North 
American tribes were remarkably similar in  method and purpose. He found that 
games using dice of various  materials—wood, cane, bone, animal teeth, 
fruit stones—existed among 130  tribes belonging to 30 linguistic groups. The 
games are described in  detail in this volume, and so are the popular guessing 
games drawing on  sticks and wooden disks and involving hidden objects.  



Volume 2 is just as absorbing in its elaboration of skills  like archery 
and games like snow-snake, in which darts or javelins were  hurled over snow 
or ice. Played throughout the continent north of Mexico  were the hoop and 
pole game and its miniature, solitaire form called ring  and pin, here 
illustrated. With equal authority Culin discusses ball  games: racket, shinny, 
football, and hot ball. He includes accounts of  "minor amusements": 
shuttlecock, tipcat, quoits, popgun, bean shooter, and  cat's cradle.



Originally published in 1907, Stewart Culin's  comprehensive work reveals a 
side of American Indian culture still only  rarely shown. An experienced 
observer, Culin was curator of ethnology at  the Brooklyn Institute of Arts 
and Sciences and the author of books about  games in other cultures.



Limited preview - Item notes: v. 2 - 1992 -  846 pages



 
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