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
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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inches, and (Cat. No. L6585d),3-$,-inches in diameter, both incomplete, each has four suits with thefollowing marks: Ax, red. Trident, yellow.Rectangle,1 ^reen.Mace, black. The court cards are missing. From the comparison of these packs it would appear that as in theGanjifa variations occur in the colors associated with certain suit marks,
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Pig. 226. HINDI PLAYING I LED (Buddha). Cat. No. i., Riueum of Archeology, Ualvaralty t lYunsylvanim. and, also, as in the case of the Korean cards Etoutjyen (No. 77). thatthere has been a progressive diminution of the suits; in this oase fromten to four. Changes and substitutions arc also seen t have occurredin the suit marks. The opinion was expressed by Mr. Ramachandrayya that the Bind acards, not being mentioned in the early records, were probably imitated In one pack (Cat. Xo. 16686a), this inscribed ird 928 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1896. from those of Europe. The writer believes that it is more likely thattheir origin rests directly upon older Asiatic traditions.183. Ganjifeh. Playing Cards.2 Persia. Fifty-seven cards of a set of sixty. Card-pieces about 2J by 1Jinches, consisting of thick lacquered cardboard with black backs.The faces bear pictures painted *in colors upon gold-foil, the groundsbeing of five different colors. These are as follows: Black: Li

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