CHESS AND PLAYING-CARDS. 



883 



indicate the twelve points of the Chinese compass, tss^ corresponding 

 to the iS'orth, man to the East, ng^ to the South, and yau to the West. 

 From this peculiarity it is not improbable that these arrows were 

 originally intended for divinatory puri)Oses. 



62. P'li TS'JM. "iiTotice Tally.'" (Fig. 191.) Chinese in the United 



States. 



Tally used to assemble members of the Chinese gamblers and vshop- 

 keepers' guild in Philadelphia. In common use for similar purposes 

 m China, where bamboo instead of varnished 

 wood is used. This tally bears on one side the 

 name of the gamblers' guild, and on the other 

 the name of one of its members, with a blank for 

 the insertion of the hour of the meeting, as 

 occasion requires. The tallies are kept by a 

 meuiber of the guild, who summons the members 

 by sending each his tally. This constitutes the 

 credentials of the person bringing it to the 

 meeting. 



These tallies are direct descendants of the 

 arrows used in more primitive conditions for the 

 same purpose Their name, /sTw, is almost iden- 

 tical with the Chinese name for arrow, and their 

 form still retains a suggestion of their origin. 

 Compare with the tallies used in the game of 

 Chong iln cWau (No. 27). 



63. iSTiN KAN. ISTew Year Cards. Chinese in the 



United States and China. 



Rectangular strips of red jiaper, 4^ by 9 inches, 

 twice folded, and bearing personal names and 

 nauies of shop companies. Widely exchanged 

 at the I^ew Year season, when they are un- 

 folded and i)asted in a row in the shop or 

 dwelling, where they are kept during the year. 



These cards may be regarded as belonging to the same family as the 

 message tally, or arrow, with the name of a man. Like it they ceremo- 

 nially stand for the individual whose name they bear, and as such are 

 preserved as pledges and tokens, given each other by members of the 

 same clan and their friends, for the year. The name lain means pri- 

 marily a slip of bamboo "formerly used for making notes on." 



CotnparaTjle with the "year cards" are the ho-hpai (Chinese, ho p'di) or "name 

 tablets, ■' which all the male inhabitants of Korea are required by law to carry. 



influence, according to the attributes ascribed to each, over the hour, day, or year 

 to which, throuo-h the duodenary cycle of symbols they respectively, appertain. 

 The usage is admittedly of foreign origin and is traced to intercourse with Tartar 

 nations. Mayer's Chinese Eeaders' Manual, Pt. 2, pp. 296, 302. 

 'Cat. No. 15815, Mus. Arch., Univ. Penu. 



Fig. U)l. 

 NOTICE TALLY (P'di ts'im). 



Length, 8J inches. 

 Chinese in United States. 



From Korean Games. Cat. No. 15S15, 

 Museum of Archseology, University 

 of Pennsylvania. 



