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IT has been known that Mr. Ste.yart Culin, formerly of the Free Museum of Science and Art in Philadelphia, and now of the Brooklyn Institute Museum, has for many years been engaged in a study of the games of the American Indians, and his monograph on the subject has recently been published in the “Twenty-fourth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology.” The value of the memoir can partly be judged by the fact that, with the full index, it extends to 846 pages and contains 1112 figures in the text, in addition to twenty-one plates. The memoir itself is practically an illus trated catalogue of specimens in various museums, combined with extracts from numerous authors. Students of this interesting and suggestive branch of ethnology have now for the first time a mass of data at their disposal, and it is to be hoped that other regions of the world will be treated by equally qualified investigators in a similarly thorough manner. Some material for such studies occurs scattered in various publications and in unpublished museum specimens, but more field-work is necessary before anything so complete as Mr. Culin's monograph can be accomplished.
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HADDON, A. The Games of North American Indians . Nature 77, 568–569 (1908). https://doi.org/10.1038/077568a0
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