876 



REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1896. 



In Peru a similar game is played on a board (fig. 183) under the name 

 of Solitario. In Mexico a corresponding game (fig. 184) is called Coyote} 



In Siam we find the game of Sua ghin gnua, or "Tiger and Oxen" 

 (fig. 185), and in Burma, Lay givet Icyah. 



There are three big tigers and eleven or some- 

 times twelve little ones. The object is for the 

 big tigers to hunt down on a draft board and eat 

 the little ones. If, however, the cubs can corner 

 the big ones and prevent them from taking a leap, 

 the latter have to snccimib.'^ 



Fig. 182. 



TIGER GAME (Pulijudatn). 



India. 



Fig. 183. 



SOLITARIO. 



Peru. 



The Samoan men at the Columbian Exposition at Chicago described 

 a native game to the writer under the name of Moo. It was played 

 with pebbles upon the squares of a mat by two persons. One had a 



Fig. 184. 



COYOTE. 



Mexico. 



Fig. 185. 

 SUA GHIN GNUA. 



Siam. 



number of white stones, the other a black piece. The rules appeared 

 to be the same as Fox and Geese. In Hawaii, Mr. James Jackson 



1 A modern printed sheet for the Juego del Coyote from Mexico in the University 

 Museum (Cat. No. 16384) bears a diagram identical with the game of Fox and Geese 

 (fig. 186). The rules given are the same. 



-The JJurmau, II, p. 83. 



