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Tsi-Di'l (Tsin-Di'l)DLP Game   

Period Modern

Region Northern America

Category Reconstruction, Pending, Board, Race

Description

Tsi-Di'l is a race game played by Navajo women. Typically, a cloth was stretched over the players, which would prevent the sticks from flying away when they were thrown against the central rock.

Rules

A number of stones, arranged in a square. The spaces between the stones are the playing spaces. Players play with sticks, which moves through the playing spaces. Three sticks, used as dice.

Origin

Navajo

Ludeme Description

Tsi-Di'l.lud

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Reference

Culin 1907: 94-95; Murray 1951: 152.

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Sources

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

Matthews, W. 1897. Navaho Legends. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

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

Identifiers

DLP.Games.718


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