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On American lot-games as evidence of Asiatic intercourse before the time of Columbus [microform]

Tylor, Edward B. (Edward Burnett), Sir, 1832-1917 · 1896 · Leiden [Netherlands] : E.J. Brill · 2 pictures

This is a scholarly paper by anthropologist Edward B. Tylor, published in Leiden in 1896, comparing American lot-games with Asian games as possible evidence of contact before Columbus. Its plates are archaeological and ethnographic drawings of game equipment: a seated pair of players over a board, cast sticks, dice-like counters, a cross-shaped board, bowls and tokens. A designer could take from them the look of 19th-century scientific plates, with numbered objects, hatched shading and neat grouped layouts arranged on a flat field.

Games · Backgammon · Jeux et récréations

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