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

[Alice Choyke]

Thanks! Useful information.

Alice

On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 11:28 AM, <PajX at aol.com> wrote:

>  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<http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=zYI6_uJ66jIC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Stewart+Culin%27s+1907+Games+of+the+North+American+Indians&cd=1>Stewart
> Culin <http://books.google.co.uk/books?q=+inauthor:%22Stewart+Culin%22> -
> Games <http://books.google.co.uk/books?q=+subject:%22Games%22> - 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%27s+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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