838 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1896. 



These cards are designated by the collector, Mr. W. H. Wilkinsou, 

 as Pat Vin l<au from their being used in the game of T^in hau. Several 

 varieties of domino cards occur in China. The evolution of playing 

 cards from dice through the wooden domino seems at first sight to be 

 clearly apparent, but the true ancestor of the playing card is doubtless 

 found in the arrow, as shown under Korean playing cards. 



23. KoL-HPAi. "Bone Tablets." Dominoes. Korea. 

 («) Set of thirty-two domino pieces.' 



(Z>) Reproduction of native picture. 



Kl-sding (singing girls) playing dominoes with a guest (Plate 26).^ 

 Korean dominoes consist of small bone or ivory tablets, or of bone 

 and wood conjoined like those exhibited. The set consists of thirty- 

 two pieces, identical with those of China. They receive difierent 

 names, however^ and are mated differently from the Chinese. The 

 names are as follows: 



1-1, 81J0-S1J0 (Chinese, siu siu), "smallest." 

 1-2, Ijoui-hko (Chinese, aliil pi), "rat nose." 

 1-3, syo-sam (Chinese, siii sdm), "small and three." 

 l-i.pdik sd (Chinese, pdk sz'), "white and four." 

 1-5, pdik-i {Chinese, pdk 'ng), "white and five." 

 1-6, 2)dik-ryouk (Chinese, pdk luk), "white and six." 

 2-2, tjoun-a (Chinese, tsun a), "superior two." 

 2-3, a-sam (Chinese, a sam), "two and three." 

 2-4, a-sd (Chinese, d sz'), "two and four." 

 2-5, koan-a (Chinese, kun a), "sovereign two." 

 2-6, a-rtjouk (Chinese, a Ink), "two and six." 

 3-3, tjyang-sam (Chinese, ch'eimg mm), "long three." 

 3-4, sam-sd (Chinese, sdm sz'), "three and four." 

 3-5, sam-o (Chinese, sdm 'ng), "three and five." 

 3-6, sam-ryouk (Chinese, sdm luk), three and six." 

 4-4, ijoun-hong (Chinese, tsun hung), "superior red." 

 4-5, sd-o (Chinese, sz' 'ng), "four and five." 

 4-6, sd-ryouk (Chinese, sz' Ink), "four and six." 

 5-5, ijoun-o (Chinese, tsun 'ng), "superior five." 

 5-6, o-ryouk (Chinese, 'ng luk), "five and six." 

 6-6,'ljoun-ryouk (Chinese, tsun luk), "superior six." 



The method of pairing is shown in fig. 155.^ The Korean games difier 

 from those of China, the most popular, called Ho-hpai, "Foreign or 

 Chinese Tablets," having many points of resemblance to the Chinese 

 system of fortune-telling in which dominoes are used (See Chinese 

 Games with Dice and Dominoes). Korean dominoes are clearly of 

 Chinese origin. 



24. Dominoes.* Burma. 



Set of twenty-four pieces of teak wood. 



1 Cat. No. 77024, U.S.N.M. Collected by Lieut. J. B. Bernadou, U. S. N. 



2 From Korean Games. 



3 The errors in the plate (9) in the Report of the U. S. National Museum, 1893, are 

 here corrected. 



•»Cat, No. 166540, U.S.N.M. Collected by Mr C. C. Ellis, acting United States 

 Consular Agent. Chinese Games with Dice and Dominoes, plate 10, Report U. S. 

 Nat. Mus., 1893, p. 528. 



