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Identifier: chessplayingcard00culi (find matches)
Title: Chess and playing cards
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Culin, Stewart, 1858-1929 United States National Museum University of Pennsylvania. University Museum
Subjects: Cotton States Exposition (1895 : Atlanta, Ga.) Chess Playing cards Games
Publisher: Washington
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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arked withdots, running irregularly from eight on one side down to blank. It isclearly a degenerate form of the European game. 27. Chong to Chau. Game of the Chief of the Literati. Canton, China. Tallies and dice.2 Chong iln cWau is played with tallies, cWau, the highest of which iscalled chong iin, the name given the Optimus at the examinations forthe degree of Hanlin, whence I have styled it The Game of the Chiefof the Literati. Two or more persons may play, using six dice andsixty-three bamboo tallies. The players throw in turn from right toleft, and after throwing each draws the tally he is entitled to for histhrow. This game is in many respects analogous to the Game of Promotion 1 Cat. No. 76880, U.S.N.M. Chinese Games with Dice and Dominoes, plate 12, Re-port U. S. Nat. Mus., 1893, p. 529. < a r. No. 25539, U.S.N.M. Gift of Stewart Culin. Chinese Games with Dice andDominoes, plate 3, Report U. S. Nat. Mus., 1893, p. 496. Report of U. S. National Museum, 1896.—Culm Plate 27.
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Set of Ivory Dominoes. Savant Islands.Cat. No. riVr- American Museum of Natural History. New York. Report of U. S National Museum. 1896. —Culin. Plate 28.

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