856 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1896. 



kinds find a parallel in the long and short blocks nsed in the Wyotit 

 game and in the similar staves used in games by certain American 

 tribes. In the case of the latter a ceremonial distinction is said to 

 sometimes exist, one kind being used exclusively by women, who are not 

 permitted to play with the otliers. 



41. Pasit (PacMsi). Burma. Cloth, cowries, and men.* 



Cloth with four arms, each with three rows of eight squares consist- 

 ing of silk cloth of different colors. 



A detailed account of Pasit is given by Shay Yoe.^ The game is 

 also called ehuay pyU-thee and ansah pyit-thee. He describes six cow- 

 ries {chuay) being used, the throws with which count as follows: 



1 mouth up =10, i'ae. 



2 mouths up = 2, pah. 



3 mouths up := 3, thohn, 



4 mouths up = 4, lay. 



5 mouths up =25, taseht. 



6 mouths up = 12, bahyah. 

 No mouths up= 6, chouk. 



These, it will be seen, closely agree with those described on page 853, 

 as do the rules in general. The " castles," called poh or kyah, are colored 

 red or green. The game is also played with three dice, identical with 

 those described under Chausar (No. 40). 



42. DHOLA(Pae/mi). Maldive Islands. Cloth, men, and cowrie shells, 



weighted with lead, used as dice-' (Plate 30). 

 The cloth is made of blue cotton with the squares embroidered in 

 white thread, with the date in the middle, A. H. 1301 (1883 A. D.). 

 Five cowries are used. In Ceylon the men receive the name of ito. 



43. Pachis [Pachisi). Persia. 



Wooden board,^ composed of four pieces which fit together in the 

 middle to form a cross (Plate 31). The face is gilded and painted in 

 colors. There are three rows of eight squares in each arm, with 

 pictures of women, covered with mica, at each of the four ends. It 

 will be observed that the game is known in Persia by its Hindu name. 

 The method of play, if it differs from that in India, is unknown to the 

 writer.'' 



1 Cat. No8. 18592, 18593, 18594, Mus. Arch., Univ. Peun. 



2 James George 5cott, The Burmau, His Life aud Notions, London, 1882, II, p. 83. 

 ■'Cat. Nos. 16476, 16477, 16482, Mus. Arch., Univ. Penn. From the exhibit of the Gov- 

 ernment of Ceylon at the Columbian Exposition, Chicago. 



'Cat. No. 18264, Mus. Arch., Uuiv. Penn. 



■^Gen. A. Houtum Schiudler, of Teheran, in reply to a letter of inquiry, writes as 

 follows : 



" racliisi, au Indian game, is seldom played in Persia; in fact, I do not remember 

 having seen it during all my twenty-nine years' residence in the country. The Per- 

 sian name of the game is I'achh and PicMs, the latter evidently a corruption of the 

 former, the original Indian word." 



