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REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1896. 



tips, and those on the other red, with green tips, agreeing in this 

 respect with the pieces in the Hindu game of Paehisi, which sometimes 

 have the green pieces tipped with red and the red with green in the 

 same manner, as in the Burmese game (No. 41). An interesting pecul- 



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Fig. 157. 



COWRIE GAME (Kaivade Kelio) . 



Board, 12 by 24J inches. 



Ceylon. 



Cat. No. 16471, Museum of Archseology, University of Pennsylvania. 



iarity of the men is that they are each marked with the name of a 

 famous Korean Kl-saing^ov "singing girl," which is inscribed in Chi- 

 nese characters on the bottom of each piece. 

 This Korean game nearly agrees with the Chinese backgammon game 



