CHESS AND PLAYING-CARDS. 



899 



unlucky, with the exception of No. 1, which is very lucky, and No. 100, 

 which is very unlucky. 



09. Ts'iM ij. "Lot-answers"^ in box, ts^im thing, from which they are 

 shaken. China and Chinese in the United States. 

 One hundred bamboo lots, about 10 inches in length (fig. 211), used in 

 Chinese temples and shrines in the same manner as the preceding. 



Fig. 210. 



DiviNiNG-STiCKS (inikvji) WITH BOX (bako), from which they are thrown. 



Length of sticks, 9 inctie.s. 



Japan. 



Cat. No. 18.307, Museum i.f Archeology, University of PennsylvBni;i. 



These lots illustrate the probable origin of the preceding lots, the 

 Japanese mikugi, in the quiver of arrows, the red-tipped, arrow-pointed 

 lots, /.s''m, being clearly derived from arrows, tsin, while the box, fhinri^ 

 represents the bamboo quiver.' 



1 Cat. No. 9048, Mus. Arch., Univ. Penn. 



2 Among the Chinese in the United States the God of War is invariably appealed 

 to in using these lots. They are placed njion the little ledge, or altar before hi.s 

 shrine (Plate 40), which is maintained practically for the purpose of such divination. 

 With the splints are invariably two elliptical pieces of wood, lean piii (fig. 212), 

 rounded on one side and flat on the other, usually made of the root stock of the 

 bamboo. The inquirer, after making th«i usual sacrifices, throws the blocks to 



