CHESS AND PLAYING-CARDS. 



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stated by him to be part of the paraphernalia of a Shaman are analogous to string 

 of leg bones of the Arctic fox, which Mr. Bryant found in use among the Arctic 

 Highlanders. (Seep. 719.) 



Fig. 198. 



TLINGIT TABLETS. 



Lengths, 2i, 3J, and 4J inches. 



Cat. No. 1G837-2A, i, k, U.S.N. W. 



64, Tanzaku. a narrow strip of tliick cardboard, 2| by 14.J iuclies, 

 used for writing verses ou. Japan. 



The usual size of the tanzahu is about 2h by 144 inches. They are 

 frequently made of a thin strip of wood. The luime is a Japanese 

 transcription of the Chinese 

 tiin chHil- " a short list or 

 memoranda,"^ and the object 

 itself may be regarded as a 

 survival from the time when 

 books were engraved on simi- 

 lar strips of bamboo, like 

 existing Buddhist scriptures 

 in Siam. The temple lots, 

 mikuji (No. 08), and the 

 Korean cards (No. 77) cor- 

 respond with a bundle of 

 tfoizabu, which are still rep- 

 resented on and give name 

 to certain card-pieces in the 

 Japanese pack (No. 81). 



The ancestry of the book 

 in Eastern Asia may be 

 traced, not only to the engraved strips of bamboo (Chinese ch^ak), but, 



Fig. 199. 



TLINGIT TABLETS. 



Lengtli, 3i to 3J iucbes. 



Cit. No. 16MT2/, m, U.S.N.M. 



' Hepburn. A more obvious explanation would be foiind iij idn ch'ak, a single slip 

 of bamboo. 



