Games of the North American Indians
By: by Stewart Culin ; introduction to the Bison book edition by Dennis Tedlock.
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 1992
Place of publication: Lincoln
Language: eng
Number of pages: 846
Subjects: Indians of North America -- Games; Indians of North America -- Gambling
Description: "Volume 1 ... takes up games of chance, involving guessing and throwing dice ... Volume 2 ... [discusses] skills like archery, games like snow-snake and hoop and pole, and amusements like bean shooter and cat's cradle."--Cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Reprinted from the original 1907 edition published as the Twenty-fourth annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, 1902-1903, Smithsonian Institution"--T.p. verso.
"A Bison book."
Table of contents: title: v. 1. Games of chance; title: v. 2. Games of skill.