ain BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY 
to have universally a devotional aspect and in cases a 
divinatory significance. Mr Culin’s studies, therefore, 
not only afford an understanding of the technology of the 
games and of their distribution, as well as their bearing 
on the history of the tribes, but they contribute in a 
remarkable manner to an appreciation of native modes of 
thought and of the motives and impulses that underlie 
the conduct of primitive peoples generally. The paper 
thus practically creates the science of games and for the 
first time gives this branch its proper place in the science 
of man. 
