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(No. 6), tlie titles of dififerent officials being* painted upon tallies 

 instead of being printed upon a diagram. The form of the tallies sug- 

 gest the probability of their having been derived from arrows. An 

 American Indian analogue is found in the Micmac game of icoltes-takun 

 (p. G97). 



28. SuGOROKU. "Double Sixes." Japan. Board ^ and teetotum. ^ 

 A common game with Japanese children, usually played at the New 



Year. The diagram or board, which is printed in colors, is divided 

 into a number of divisions distinguished by pictures. One of the 

 most popular forms is called do chm, or "traveling" sugorol-u, and is 

 played upon a large sheet of paper on which are represented the various 

 stopping places on a journey. The moves are made according to the 

 throws with one or more dice, or with a teetotum (Japanese coma). The 

 game exhibited is entitled Ifan niyo ichi clai shus-sei sugorolcu or " Boys 

 and girls step by step advancing sugoroTcu,^^ and is printed in colors 

 upon a large sheet of paper. Another game in the museum is entitled 

 Kamalcura ei-yu sugorolcu, or "The heroes of Kamakura surgorolu,''^ and 

 another, Galko seito ben Iciyo surgorolu, or "School- students studying 

 sugoroTcn.'''' New games are published in Japan at each recurring New 

 Year. Like the corresponding games at the present day in Europe 

 and America, they frequently reflect whatever is ui^permost in the 

 popular mind. Thus, in 1894-95 the war with the Chinese gave rise 

 to the Shina set hatsu sugorolcu^ or "Punishing China surgorolcu,''^ a 

 specimen of which is in the University Museum (Cat. No. 17687). The 

 name sugoroJcu is more correctly applied to the game of backgammon 

 played with two dice, but is used at the j)resent day in Japan to desig- 

 nate all games phiyed on boards or diagrams in which the moves are 

 made by throwing dice. 



29. Jeu de L'Oie. Game of Goose.^ France. 



Folding board imprinted with diagram 14 by 18 inches, having sixty- 

 three numbered stations; dice and men. 



The pieces are moved according to the throws. A 'common game in 

 France at the New Year. 



30. Giuoco Dell' Oca. "Game of Goose." Florence, Italy. 

 Lithographed diagram^ with ninety numbered stations around which 



the i)layers move their men, according to the throws. (Plate 28.) 



31. JuEGO DE LA OcA. Game of Goose.^ Mexico. 



Paper diagram printed with sixty-three numbered stations. Similar 

 to the preceding. A similar Mexican game entitled the Juego del 

 Laberinto, in the University Museum (Cat. No. 16474) has sixty-three 



'Cat. No. 7130, Mus. Arch., Univ. Penn. 

 "Cat. No. 7139, Mns. Arch., Univ. Penn. 

 ='Cat. No. 15489, Mns. Arcli., Univ. Penn. 

 ''Cat. No. 1.-.503, iMus. Arch., Univ. Penn. 

 r-Cat. i\o. 182t)3. Mns. Arch., Univ. Penn. 



