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<DIV>Certainly the book is fascinating</DIV>
<DIV>I guess we have a reprint ( probably the one that Pam has found in Google)
because it is not from 1907! .</DIV>
<DIV>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)...</DIV>
<DIV>Best</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Dra. Vivian Scheinsohn<BR>INAPL/CONICET<BR>3 de Febrero 1370<BR>1426
Capital Federal<BR>E-mail: <A
href="mailto:scheinso@retina.ar">scheinso@retina.ar</A></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, May 14, 2010 6:28 AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Bonetools] bone gambling
pieces, dice, etc - Cullin Ref</DIV>
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<DIV>In a message dated 14/05/2010 06:46:04 GMT Daylight Time, <A
href="mailto:h13017cho@iif.hu">h13017cho@iif.hu</A> writes:</DIV>
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style="BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px"><FONT
style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 size=2
face=Arial>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 dir=ltr class="snippet sa">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
editions</A></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>
<H2 class=summary_header>Book overview</H2>
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<DIV dir=ltr id=synopsistext class=sa>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><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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