Games of the North American Indian, Volume 2: Games of Skill AUTH-12964031 ISBN13: 9781612789064

ISBN13: 9781612789064

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Games of the North American Indian, Volume 2: Games of Skill AUTH-12964031 ISBN13: 9781612789064Games figured prominently in the myths of North American Indian tribes, and also in their ceremonies for bringing rain and fertility and combating misfortune. In his classic study, originally published in 1907 as a report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, Stewart Culin divided the games played by Indian men and women into two general types. Volume 1 of this Bison Books edition takes up games of chance, involving guessing and throwing dice. Culin