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Evidence for Serup
1 pieces of evidence found.
Id DLP.Evidence.1889
Type Ethnography
Location 33° 5'18.63"N, 116°45'7.46"W
Date 1907-01-01 - 1907-12-31
Rules Four stick dice, each of which is marked differently. The board is rendered as a series of holes. They are in the form of a trapezoid: 11 holes on the bottom side, and ten in the remaining four. From the left of the bottom side and the right of the top side are four extra holes extending out.
Content "Mission Indians, Mesa Grande California...Cat. no. 62536. Four wooden sticks, 3 1/4 inches in length and seven-eights of an inch wide, round on one side and flat o nthe other, the latter being marked with burnt cross lines as shown in figure 270; accompanied by a qwooden tablet, 7 by 9 inches, marked with holes counting 10 on a side. These were collected by Mr. C.B. Watkins, who describes the game under the name of serup. Each stick has a value known by the narks. The tablet serves to keep count of the throws." Culin 1907: 204-205. The figure shows ten on three sides and eleven on the fourth.
Confidence 100
Source Culin, S. 1907. Games of the North American Indians. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
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