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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ansactions Asiatic Society of Japan, XIX (Pt. 3), pp. 545-564), 8vo., Yoko-hama, L891. Mrs. ,J. King Van Rensselaer, Playing-Cards from Japan, with plates, 3 pp. (Pro-ceedings U. S.Nat. Mus., 1891, 8vo., Washington). The writer is indebted for the above list to Fr. Von Wencksterns Bibliography ofthe Japanese Empire, Leiden, 1895. < at. No. 15280. Mus. Arch., Univ. Penn. Mi. Ramaohandrayya informs me that the chief place of manufacture of playing-cards in India is Kondapalle, in the Presidency of Madras. CHESS AND PLAYING-CARDS. 925 Wazir and Shah. The suits, which are divided into superior andinferior, beshbur and Lumbar, are as follows: SUPERIOR. Taj, crown.Soofed, white.Shumsher, saber.Gholam, slave. INFERIOR. Chung, harp. Soorkh, red.Burat, •• diploma.Quinuuh, merchandise. The colors of the grounds in the same order are yellow, black, red,yellow, green, red, brown. Four additional packs of these cards in theUniversity Museum agree with the above in number and design, varying
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Kg. 224. niNur playing oabd (/ m&). hirology, University of Pennsylvania- only in diameter from 1,\ to 1 \ \ inches, and in fineness of execution.One pack (Oat. No. 191.34), apparently more ancient, is distinguishedby superior finish, both in painting and lacquer. While the colors of thegrounds of all these cards, with reference to the suit-marks, are prac-tically the same, they differ in this respect from the similar pack in theMuseum of the Royal Asiatic Society described by Obatto, whogivefla description of the game, taken from the Calcutta Magazine for 1815,The preceding cards may be regarded Persian or Mohammedan in 1 Facts aud Speculations on the Origin am 1 Historj ofPlaj (Lb, London, U p. 35. *>2() REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1896. type. Such is not the case with the following packs in the UniversityMuseum, which bear Hindu emblems representing the ten avatars ofVishnu, from which they are known as the dasavatara mulu, or theGame of the Ten Incarnations. One pack (Oat. N

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