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Identifier: bernadouallenjou00houg (find matches)
Title: The Bernadou, Allen, and Jouy Corean collections in the U.S. National Museum
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Hough, Walter, 1859-1935 United States National Museum
Subjects: United States National Museum Ethnology
Publisher: Washington : GPO
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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-headed drum produces four distinct sounds, according to the place * W. W. Rockhill: The Laud of the Lamas, p. 88. EXPLANATION OF PLATE XXIV. Korean Games of Skill and Chance. Fig. 1. Playing Cards. Eighty-one long, narrow strips of oiled paper with thesuit signs written on them. There are eight suits—the man, iish, hawk,pheasant, deer, steer, rabbit, and horse. Length, 8 inches; width, ^ inch.(Cat. No. 77047, U. S. N. M. Seoul, Korea. Collected by Ensign J. B.Bernadou, U. S. N.) Fig. 2. Chinese Chessmen. Thirty-two hexagonal blocks of pine wood, of threedifferent sizes. Characters, Chinese; cut in the blocks and painted redand blue. (Cat. No. 77025, U. S. N. M. Seoul, Korea. Collected byEnsign J. B. Bernadou, U. S. N.) Fig. 3. Dominoes. Thirty-two ivory dies, marked with red and black spots, largeand small. Size of die, f inch long, ^ inch wide. (Cat. No. 77024, U. S.N. M. Seoul, Korea. Collected by Ensign J. B. Bernadou, U. S. N.) jrt of National Museum, 1891.—Hough. Plate XXIV.
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Korean Games of Skill atmd Chance. ff?eport of National Museum, 1891,—Hough. Plate XXV.
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