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

[Vivian Scheinsohn]

Certainly the book is fascinating
I guess we have a reprint ( probably the one that Pam has found in Google) because it is not from 1907! .
But it is a big ( in spanish we will say  "gordo"= fat)  book. With time, I can try to scan the pages related with bone pieces and send it to the list (or to the webpage)...
Best

Dra. Vivian Scheinsohn
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  In a message dated 14/05/2010 06:46:04 GMT Daylight Time, h13017cho at iif.hu writes:
    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+Games+of+the+North+American+Indians

  best
  Pam Cross
  UoBradford, UK

  Games of the North American Indians: Games of skill‎
  Stewart Culin - 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 - More editions

  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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