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The latter I have shown to be direct substitutes for arrow-shaftments, 

 hence the derivation of the splints from similar shaftmeuts may be 

 regarded as assured. 



66. Chinese Fortune-Teller's Sign. Cotton cloth painted ^ with 



the Pat Jcivd or "Eight Diagrams." Johore, Malay Peninsula. 



67. Kwi. TS' IM. Divining- splints.^ China and Chinese in the United 



States. 

 Thirty-two or sixty-four splints of bamboo, about a inches in length, 

 tipped with red (fig. 209). One-fourth of the splints are marked with one 

 dot and called tan, "single;" one-fourth with two dots, chit, "broken;" 



one -fourth with a circle, 

 cWung, " duplicated," and the 

 remaindei' with a cross, Icdu, 

 "united." They are regard- 

 ed, respectively, as yeung, 

 "masculine;" yam, "femi- 

 nine;" fiJnii yeung and sliiil 

 yam, yam meaning "assist- 

 ant." The inquirer draws a 

 s))lint at random from a vase 

 in whicli the entire bundle is 

 l)laced, and the fortune-teller 

 notes its mark uiDon a piece 

 of paper. Another splint is 

 then drawn, and the result 

 written down just above the 

 former mark, and this re- 

 peated until six marks in a 

 line, one above the other, are 

 obtained. The combination 

 is interpreted with the aid of 

 the "Book of Divination," 

 by reference to the corresponding diagram, as in Yehi (No. 65). In this 

 method of fortune-telling the diagram indicating place is determined by 

 the repeated selection of the chance-arrows. 



68. MiKUJi. Divining-sticks,^ with box, mikuji baho, from which they 



are thrown. Japan. 

 Sixty bamboo lots, about 9 inches in length, marked with numbers 

 from one to sixty (fig. 210). Kept in both Shinto and Buddhist temples 

 in Japan. A lot is shaken from a box and its number referred to a 

 book in which an explanation is given. Either sixty or one hundred 

 lots are used. The even numbers are considered lucky and the odd 







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Fig. 'JOQ. 



DIVINING-SPLINTS (k^«d ta'im). 



Length, 5 incbea. 



China. 



Cat. No. 176667, U.S.N. M. From Korean Ga 



'Cat. No. 16760, Mns. Areli., Univ. Peun. From the collection sent by His High- 

 ness the late Sultan of Johore to the Colunibiau Ex,po8itiou, Chicago. 

 2 Cat. No. 175657, U.S.N.M. Gift of Stewart Culin. 

 3,Cat. No. 175658, U.S.N.M. Gift of Stewart .CuUa. 



