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Title: Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution
Identifier: annualreportofbo1896smit (find matches)
Year: 1846 (1840s)
Authors: Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents; United States National Museum. Report of the U. S. National Museum; Smithsonian Institution. Report of the Secretary
Subjects: Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science
Publisher: Washington : Smithsonian Institution
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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CHESS AND PLAYING-CARDS. 889 65. Yeki. Diviuation. Japan. Fifty splints of bamboo, zeivhahu, and six wooden prisms, sangi} The sticks may vary in length from 2 to 14 inches, tlie set ex- hibited being 14 inches in length. The wooden prisms, which are usually made of shitan, or red sandalwood, have two contigu- ous sides plain and two marked with a transverse cut about 1 inch wide, which is painted red (fig. 203). These blocks, called sangi, or "calculating sticks," are placed before the fortune- teller, parallel to each other and with their plain faces uppermost. The fortune teller takes the bundle of splints in his right hand and raises them reveren- tially to his forehead. He then places the ends in the palm of his left hand and shuffles them with a rotary motion (fig. 204). Taking the bundle in his right hand, he places one so that it projects between his little finger and his third finger (fig. 205). Dividing the remainder in two parts, he places one of the bun- dies between his middle finger and forefinger and the other be- tween his forefinger and thumb. The latter bundle is then conn ted, taking four splints at a time around the Fat lied or "Eight Diagrams" (fig. 20G), beginning at the one consisting of un- broken lines designated by the Chinese character ¥in, and cor- responding with the Northwest. When the count has been made around the diagrams as many
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Fis. 202. i'OLDiNQ FAN {hcik shin, "black fan"). Length, llj inches. Canton, China. Cat. No. 1")401, Museum of Arcliffiology, University of Peiinsylv ' Cat. Nt>. 17565.5, U.S.N.M. Gift of Ste^ya^t Ciiliu.

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