924 



REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1896. 



The name applied to cards, cm^uta, is certainly the Spanish carta, but 

 the cards appear to be distinctly Japanese, and to contain a suggestion 

 of the primitive modes of thought under which they doubtless origi- 

 nated. 



82. Ganjifa. Playing-Cards.' Lucknow, India. 



Set of ninety-six circular cards. Thiu disks of lacquered card, 1^ 

 inches in diameter. Backs plain red. Faces bear suit marks on 



Fig. 223. 



HINDU PLAYING-CARD (Pdrofu-Bdrnd). 

 Cat. No. 19135, Museum of Archaeology, University of Pennsylrania. 



grounds of different colors. There are eight suits {rang, "colors"), of 

 twelve cards each, consisting of ten numerals and two court cards, 



published), Mittheilungen d. deutschen Gesellschaft f. Natnr- und Volkerkunde 

 Ostasiens, III, Pt. 30, pp. 422-425, 4to., Yokohama, 1883. 



H. Spencer Palmer, Hana-awase, with colored facsimiles of playiug-cards on four 

 plates (Transactions Asiatic Society of Japan, XIX (Pt. 3), pp. 545-564), 8vo., Yoko- 

 hama, 18S)1. 



Mrs. J. King Van Rensselaer, Playing-Cards from Japan, with plates, 3 pp. (Pro- 

 ceedings U. S. Nat. Mus., 1891, 8vo., Washington). 



The Avriter is indebted for the above list to Fr. Von Wenckstern's Bibliography of 

 the Japanese Empire, Leiden, 1895. 



' Cat. No. 15280, Mus. Arch., Univ. Penn. 



Mr. Ramachandrayya informs me that the chief place of manufacture of playing- 

 cards in India is Kondapalle, in the Presidency of Madras. 



