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Evidence in New Mexico Navajo
1 pieces of evidence found.
Id DLP.Evidence.1591
Type Ethnography
Game Settilth
Date 1893-01-01 - 1893-12-31
Rules Forty stones placed in a circle, with a larger gap after every tenth stone. The gaps are the playing spaces. One stick per player, all of which begin in one of the larger gaps. Three sticks, one side round and the other flat, used as dice. Throws are as follows: three round sides up = 10; three flat sides up = 5; all others = 0.
Content "NAVAHO. New Mexico. ...As observed by the writer at the Columbian Exposition in Chicago,
the Navaho play on a circle of forty stones, throwing the staves ends down upon a flat stone placed in the center. Each player has a splint or twig to represent him upon the board, and these are all placed together at one of the four openings in the circle at the commencement of the game. The throws count as follows: Three round side up counts 10; three flat, 5; two rounds and one flat, 0; one round and two flat, 0. The following vocabulary of the game was furnished me by a Navaho at Chicago: The game, Set- tilth; the circle of stones, sen-asti ; the stone in the center, a-cle-sane." Culin 1907: 94.
Confidence 100
Source Culin, S. 1907. Games of the North American Indians. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
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