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<DIV>In a message dated 14/05/2010 06:46:04 GMT Daylight Time, h13017cho@iif.hu
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<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>Stewart
Culin's 1907 opus: Games of the North American Indians</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE>
<DIV>Googlebooks has at least one volume of the 1992 reprint on limited
preview</DIV>
<DIV><A href="http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=zYI6_uJ66jIC&dq=Stewart+Culin%27s+1907+Games+of+the+North+American+Indians">http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=zYI6_uJ66jIC&dq=Stewart+Culin%27s+1907+Games+of+the+North+American+Indians</A></DIV>
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<DIV>best</DIV>
<DIV>Pam Cross</DIV>
<DIV>UoBradford, UK</DIV>
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<H2 class=resbdy><A href="http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=zYI6_uJ66jIC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Stewart+Culin's+1907+Games+of+the+North+American+Indians&cd=1"><SPAN dir=ltr><B>Games</B> of the <B>North</B> <B>American</B> <B>Indians</B>:
<B>Games</B> of skill</SPAN></A></H2><FONT size=-1><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 1.2em"><SPAN class=ln2><A class=link_aux href="http://books.google.co.uk/books?q=+inauthor:%22Stewart+Culin%22">Stewart
Culin</A> - <A class=link_aux href="http://books.google.co.uk/books?q=+subject:%22Games%22">Games</A> - 1992 -
846 pages</SPAN><BR>
<DIV class="snippet sa" dir=ltr>Volume 1 of this Bison Books edition takes up
games of chance, involving guessing and throwing dice.</DIV>
<DIV><SPAN style="COLOR: #99522e">Limited preview</SPAN> - <A class="link_aux axs_about" href="http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=zYI6_uJ66jIC&dq=Stewart+Culin%27s+1907+Games+of+the+North+American+Indians" ?>About this book</A> - <A class="link_aux axs_versions" href="http://books.google.co.uk/books?q=editions:ISBN0803263562&id=zYI6_uJ66jIC">More
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<DIV class=sa id=synopsistext dir=ltr>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. <BR><BR>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.
<BR><BR><BR><BR>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.<BR><BR><BR><BR>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.<BR><BR></DIV><BR>
<DIV class=bookinfo_sectionwrap><SPAN class=""><SPAN style="COLOR: #99522e">Limited preview</SPAN> - Item notes: v. 2 - 1992 -
846 pages</SPAN></DIV></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></DIV></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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