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Games of the North American Indians, Volume 1: Games of Chance

Games of the North American Indians, Volume 1: Games of Chance

Culin, Stewart
Tedlock, Dennis

Paperback

Series: Games of the North American Indians, Book 1

Native American HistorySports General

Publisher Price: $28.95

ISBN10: 0803263554
ISBN13: 9780803263550
Publisher: Bison Books
Published: Nov 1 1992
Pages: 402
Weight: 1.32
Height: 0.96 Width: 5.93 Depth: 9.29
Language: English
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.

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