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Evidence for Tatsungin
1 pieces of evidence found.
Id DLP.Evidence.1571
Type Ethnography
Location Pyramid Lake
Date 1907-01-01 - 1907-12-31
Rules Ten sticks stuck into the ground; the playing spaces are the spaces between the sticks. Eight sticks with one red and one white side, used as dice. The value of the throws equals the number of white sides up. One piece per player.
Content "Paiute Pyramid Lake, Nevada. (Cat no. 19045, United States National Museum.) Eight slips of split cane, painted red on the inside, 11 inches in length. Collected by Mr Stephen Powers, who describes them as follows: Tatsungin, gambling pieces. Then sticks are stuck into the ground, and two men play by throwing on end eight split pieces of reed, painted red on the inside; they count the pieces which fall white side up and there are two pieces serving as counters in addition to the pieces stuck in the ground, the latter representing the ten fingers." Culin 1907: 167.
Confidence 100
Ages Adult
Genders Male
Source Culin, S. 1907. Games of the North American Indians. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
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