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Sitih DLP Game   

Period Modern

Region Northern America

Category Reconstruction, Pending, Board, Race

Description

Sitih is a race game played by the Navajo people in Arizona.

Rules

Forty stones, arranged in a circle, the spaces between the stones are the playing spaces. Three sticks, each marked with three bands on one side and two on the other, used as dice. The throws are as follows: all three bands up = 5; all two bands up = 10; one with three bands and two with two bands = 2; two with three bands and one with two bands = 3; one with two bands and two with three bands = 3.

Origin

Arizona

Ludeme Description

Sitih.lud

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Reference

Murray 1951: 152.

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Sources

Culin, S. 1907. Games of the North American Indians. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.

Murray, H.J.R. 1951. A History of Board-Games Other Than Chess. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Identifiers

DLP.Games.716


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