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	Stewart Culin, Ethnographer
		Born in Philadelphia and raised in Pennsylvania, in 1892 Culin was appointed Director of the University of Pennsylvania's Museum of Archaeology and Paleontology.
		(Culin's) researches have also brought to light many significant facts bearing on the usages, beliefs and ethnic relations of early peoples, and the material result of the investigation is an elaborate paper on "Arrow games and their variants in America and the Orient," under the joint authorship of Messrs.
		Culin published over 65 papers, articles, and books on a variety of subjects, ranging from the practice of Chinese medicine in the United States, to the evolution of fashion as found in works of fine art.
	gamesmuseum.uwaterloo.ca /Archives/Culin/index.html (1954 words)

	Stewart Culin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Stewart Culin (July 13, 1858 - 1929) was an ethnographer interested in games, art and author.
		In 1892 Culin became Director of the University of Pennsylvania's Museum of Archaeology and Paleontology.
		In 1903 Culin resigned from the University of Pennsylvania and became curator of Ethnology at the Institute of Arts and Sciences of the Brooklyn Museum in New York.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stewart_Culin (653 words)

	Stewart Culin, Ethnographer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Born in Philadelphia and raised in Pennsylvania, in 1892 Culin was appointed Director of the University of Pennsylvania's Museum of Archaeology and Paleontology.
		Culin was a "diffusionist", and through his studies he attempted to illustrate how and why similar games appear in different cultures.
		(Culin's) researches have also brought to light many significant facts bearing on the usages, beliefs and ethnic relations of early peoples, and the material result of the investigation is an elaborate paper on "Arrow games and their variants in America and the Orient," under the joint authorship of Messrs.
	www.ahs.uwaterloo.ca /~museum/Archives/Culin (1917 words)

	Stewart Culin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Stewart Culin (July 13, 1858 - [1929]) was an ethnographer interested in game s, art and author.
		Stewart Area Map Shows where Stewart is in relation to Hutchinson and surrounding communities.
		Stewart: Kaiwaka, NZ Descendants of Angus Stewart who emigrated from Skye, Scotland to Prince Edward Island, CAN in 1803, then to NZ in 1859.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Stewart_Culin.html (915 words)

	Stewart Culin at AllExperts
		Born Robert Stewart Culin, a son of Mina Barrett Daniel Culin and John Culin, in Philadelphia, Culin was schooled at Nazareth Hall, a well-regarded boy's school in Nazareth, Pennsylvania.
		In 1892 Culin became Director of the University of Pennsylvania's Museum of Archaeology and Paleontology.
		In 1903 Culin resigned from the University of Pennsylvania and became curator of Ethnology at the Institute of Arts and Sciences of the Brooklyn Museum in New York.
	en.allexperts.com /e/s/st/stewart_culin.htm (847 words)

	Stewart Culin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Culin published his first book in 1895 about Korean games inspired by Cushing, of theBureau of American Ethnology of Washington.
		In 1903 Culin resigned from the University of Pennsylvania and became curator ofEthnology at the Institute of Arts and Sciences of the BrooklynMuseum in New York.
		In 1907 Culin unifiedhis 14 years of theories and ideas in the major book "Games of North American Indians" splitted up by category games of skill and games of chance.
	www.therfcc.org /stewart-culin-257316.html (551 words)

	Brooklyn Museum: Digital Collections
		Culin was concerned not only with finding and acquiring objects for the Museum, but also with documenting the maker, the social position of the seller, the circumstances of purchase, the provenance, the use of the object, and the cultural life of the region.
		Culin was among the first curators to recognize the museum installation as an art form in itself and to display ethnological collections as art objects, not as mere specimens.
		Culin's voluminous correspondence and his expedition reports form the heart and bulk of this collection, as they are the most complete and clear in their representation of Culin's work.
	www.brooklynmuseum.org /research/digital-collections/finding-aids/culin (6086 words)

	Stewart Culin
		Stewart Culin was born on July 13, 1858 in Philadelphia to John Culin and Mira Barrett Culin.
		Culin was also interested in the occult and in fashion, often working with many women's magazines and fashion designers to create displays.
		Culin wanted the museum to be a place for people to study and this is most apparent with his fashion exhibits.
	www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/information/biography/abcde/culin_stewart.html (401 words)

	History of Mahjong
		Stewart Culin is lucky in that most of his writings have been either reprinted or published in respectable journals many University Libraries keep.
		Culin's magnum opus on games was his extensive exhibition catalogue "Chess and Playing-Cards", in which he put forth a theory of the developement of games from divinational practices.
		Culin, Stewart: Chess and Playing Cards: Catalogue of games and implements for divination exhibited by the United States National Museum in connection with the department of archæology and paleontology of the University of Pennsylvania at the Cotton States and International Exposition, Atlanta, Georgia, 1895.
	hjem.get2net.dk /kibj/post/1999/9904-05.htm (1372 words)

	INSIDE STORY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Culin believed the worldwide similarity in gaming was proof of a contact between cultures.
		Culin, in his observations, noted the adoption and adaptation of games from Europe by the American Natives, thus deducing traditional native games predated Columbus.
		Culin found that almost every tribe played several versions of a particular game, but that not all games were played by every tribe.
	www.gamblingmagazine.com /articles/22/22-23.htm (524 words)

	Brooklyn Museum: African Art Exhibition of 1923
		Culin writes re his visit to the shop D. Arditti and among many items he mentions Algerian embroidery and a Moorish costume worn by Jewish women in Morocco; speaks of the high quality of three seated Bushongo figures in the African collection at the British Museum.
		Culin notes that his purchases were about what he expected except for a carved wooden Nigerian town gate showing a procession in relief of the King, his wives and his guards.
		Culin purchases a grotesque figure of an antelope, a highly ornamented iron axe and a small wooden seat with ornamented figures, a very fine Bushongo box, a "gorilla" mask, a disk-shaped mask and a carved message stick.
	www.brooklynmuseum.org /research/digital-collections/pna1923/textual.php (1415 words)

	Zuni and the American Imagination
		Stevenson, Cushing, and Culin were eccentric, remarkable personalities in their own right, and McFeely gives ample consideration to each of them in her colorful and absorbing study.
		Matilda Stevenson, Frank Hamilton Cushing, and Stewart Culin are relegated to footnotes in the history of anthropology.
		Stevenson, Cushing, and Culin are now on the margins of the history of anthropology and, in many ways, at the edges of American history.
	www.2think.org /zuni.shtml (2359 words)

	Matoska Trading Company - Item List (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Culin describes the practice of archery and games like snow-snake, in which darts or javelins were hurled over snow or ice.
		Stewart Culin's comprehensive work reveals a side of American Indian culture still only rarely shown.
		An experienced observer, Culin was curator of ethnology at the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences and the author of books about games in other cultures.
	www.matoska.com /cgibin/gencat.cgi?AC=genitems&IL=8080-326-356 (242 words)

	ART VIEW; Art in Aisle 3, by Lingerie, And Feel Free to Browse - New York Times
		Stewart's had real Persian hassocks and carpets and elaborate installations of Persian design on view for its patrons' edification.
		Stewart Culin, a curator at the University of Pennsylvania Museum, led the expeditions.
		Culin even kept a study room at the museum for fashion designers.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=990CE5DA143DF93AA25750C0A963958260 (692 words)

	Chinese Games With Dice and Dominoes
		Culin introduced the paper with the following comments.
		The gamblers are usually men of the most ignorant class, and those most familiar with the games are often the least able to furnish correct Chinese transcriptions of the terms employed in them, so that the task of interpretation would have been extremely difficult but for the assistance received from Chinese and Japanese scholars.
		Following these comments, Culin presents detailed descriptions of the equipment (many with illustrations) for over 30 games, along with instructions for play.
	gamesmuseum.uwaterloo.ca /Archives/Culin/Dice1893 (494 words)

	Northwest Coast Books: Games of the North American Indians 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Culin was able to show that the games of North American tribes were remarkably similar in method and purpose.
		Originally published in 1907, Stewart Culin's comprehensive work reveals a side of American Indian culture that is still rarely shown.
		An experienced observer, Culin was curator of ethnology at the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences and the author of books about games in other cultures.
	www.nwcbooks.com /Titles/G/Games1.htm (329 words)

	Austin Chronicle: Print an Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Culin, the first curator of ethnology at the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, set out to create an aesthetic exhibit about Zuni culture and used Cushing's costuming.
		But for Culin, McFeely says, it was the things themselves that were important, not the history and meaning of them.
		McFeely's analysis of these three figures is clearly presented, enhanced by her effective prose and connections to broader issues of history and literature.
	www.austinchronicle.com /gyrobase/Issue/print?oid=oid:82708 (561 words)

	FAQ 11. History of Mah-Jongg
		Stewart Culin briefly mentioned some tile sets collected by George B. Glover.
		Culin had mentioned a tile which is not present, so the following is a composite description (and includes the alleged Center Ruler tile - mentioned by Culin but not supported by the photographs).
		If Culin was not mistaken, this would have created an odd number of tiles in the set: 149 in all.
	www.sloperama.com /mjfaq/mjfaq11e.html (1043 words)

	Whitney, James Edward, collector. Playing cards: Guide.
		Culin these white backed cards are often used by "F'an T'an" players in America as counters.
		Culin describes a pack of this name which is quite different.
		Culin considers that these cards originate from the use of arrows used for divinatory purposes, which later developed into games.
	oasis.harvard.edu:10080 /oasis/deliver/~hou01454 (17835 words)

	ART REVIEW; Safari Through Troves Of African Wonders In Brooklyn and Chelsea - New York Times
		Culin was the curator of ethnology in Brooklyn in the 1920's.
		Because the museum was in a spending mood in those years, and the stuff Culin was after was cheap, he was able to pick up some, shall we say, very nice things.
		Culin's core collection has been much added to since, most recently with a group of knockout pieces donated by the artist Beatrice Riese.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9A03E4D9133BF932A25756C0A9679C8B63 (726 words)

	Wilderness Drum > Wilderness Books > Skills > Games and Music
		Stewart Culin, Games of the North American Indians (Lincoln NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1992), ISBN 0-80326-356-2.
		Culin is one of the founding fathers of the study of games, and his book on games of Native Americans is one of the classic works in the field.
		The book is very complete, giving descriptions of how different groups of people played and adapted games for their own use.
	www.wildernessdrum.com /html/games_books.html (1546 words)

	Hubbell Trading Post NHS: Cultural Landscape Report (Site History)
		Like the barn and trading post, the new house was constructed of locally available stone and timbers from the Defiance Plateau 15 miles east of Ganado, Tree-ring information reveals that the house was roofed in 1901 and this included the main hall and the 5 flanking rooms.
		Kinlichinee was born in March of 1895 and he states that at the time he was a little child "this fenced in area was full of juniper trees growing close together and I was present when they felled them." [98]
		Additional information is provided by Stewart Culin regarding Hubbell's early progress in clearing and cultivating his fields and implementing his newly constructed irrigation system.
	www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/hutr/clr/clr2c.htm (2693 words)

	Keno article - Keno gambling game United States Dynasty Stewart Culin lottery bingo - What-Means.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Keno article - Keno gambling game United States Dynasty Stewart Culin lottery bingo - What-Means.com
		Keno is a popular gambling game in the United States.
		The following account of the history of the game is an excerpt from Stewart Culin's paper published in 1891.
	www.what-means.com /encyclopedia/Keno (790 words)

	THE FORMATION OF AN ISLAMIC ART LIBRARY COLLECTIONIN AN AMERICAN MUSEUM - 61st IFLA General Conference
		At TBM early interest in this area is evident in the accession records which record the first object arriving on Feb., 1, 1901 which was a Syrian perfume sprinkler dated from the 13th/14th centuries.
		Stewart Culin, founding curator of ethnology (1903 1929) was very interested in the art of Islam and the Near East.
		One of his major acquisitions was paintings from the manuscript "Hamza nama", othe rwise known as the "Qissa i Amir Hamza", painted approximately 1562 77 and produced by the atelier at the court of the Mughal emperor Akbar.
	www.ifla.org /IV/ifla61/61-lawd.htm (1827 words)

	Stewart Culin ; Games of the North American Indians, Stewart Elliott Guthrie - Faces in the Clouds : A New Theory of ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Stewart Culin ; Games of the North American Indians, Stewart Elliott Guthrie - Faces in the Clouds : A New Theory of Religion,
		Stewart Elliott Guthrie - Faces in the Clouds : A New Theory of Religion
		Stewart Custer - Stones of Witness: Images of the Holy Land
	www.virtual-life.com /222663_stewart-culin.html (152 words)

	Culin S - new and used books
		A Trooper's Narrative of siggice in the Anthracite Coal Strike,1902.
		CULIN S - A Trooper's Narrative of siggice in the Anthracite Coal Strike,1902.
		Culin, S.(a) Wilson, T. (b), Hough, W. (c).
	www.isbn.pl /A-CULIN-S (258 words)

	Game Studies 0101: Study of Games review by Jesper Juul
		The Culin in question is Stewart Culin, an American anthropologist and author of numerous writings on games, most famous for the 800 page Games of the North American Indians.
		No matter, such definitions will always border on the tautological since they also have to describe the range of objects that are covered by the definition.
		Also clearly demonstrated is the impulse towards categorisation, the modern tradition of which may begin with Culin's division of American Indian games into games of chance and games of dexterity (with further subdivisions).
	www.gamestudies.org /0101/juul-review (1582 words)

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