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Evidence in Omaha
1 pieces of evidence found.
Id DLP.Evidence.1865
Type Ethnography
Game Wakanpamungthae
Date 1873-01-01 - 1893-12-31
Rules Checkers-like game.
Content "Omaha. Nebraska. Mr Francis La Flesche told the writer in 1893 that the Omaha learned the game of checkers from the whites about twenty years before and that they called it wakanpamungthae, gambling bowed head, or bowed-head game." Culin 1907: 797.
Confidence 100
Source Culin, S. 1907. Games of the North American Indians. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
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