Identifier: annualreportofbu23smit (find matches)
Title: Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology
Subjects: Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology Ethnology Indians
Publisher: Washington : U. S. Govt. Print. Off.
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Kahle/Austin Foundation and Omidyar Network

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nth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology). Dr E. B. Tylor, in his paper onAmerican lot games as evidence of Asiatic intercourse before the time of Columbus, refers at lengthto this game, giving a diagram of it as played by the Apache Indians, which is identical with the formof the game as played by the Zuiiis. Mr Culin, in Che.^s and Playing Cards, calls attention to a form oftasholiwe known as tem thla nah na ta sho li we (of all the regions wood canes). The writer hasnot discovered any such form as is described by Mr Culin, but a Zuiii will sometimes, when he wishesto play sholiwe, refer to the canes as t?m*la nanakwe sholiwe (all grandfathers arrow reeds, i. e.,reeds of our forefathers). ^The Znnis also make the checkerboard within a circle, and in this case they have the advantageof resorting to the periphery when cornered. Some of the older men of Zuni declare that this game,when it came originally to Zuiii from Mexico, was played with a set of stones for one side and a stick
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