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Evidence for Picaria (Large)

1 pieces of evidence found.

Id DLP.Evidence.1672
Type Ethnography
Location 34°54'28.55"N,106°41'40.89"W
Date 1907-01-01 - 1907-12-31
Rules Two concentric squares, with lines connecting the midpoints of the squares, but which extend beyond the edge of the outer square.
Content "A boy from Isleta, names J. Crecencio Lucero, described the people of this pueblo as playing a board game which they call picaria (Spanish, pedreria), little stone. They use diagrams of two kinds, represented in figures 1099 and 1100. " Culin 1907: 798.
Confidence 100
Ages Child
Genders Male
Source Culin, S. 1907. Games of the North American Indians. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.

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