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Games of the North American Indians

Stewart Culin, Twenty-Fourth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, 1907

Description

Culin's monumental 846-page survey of indigenous North American games. Pages 124–130 provide the authoritative description of Zohn Ahl as played by the Kiowa, including the blanket circuit, the ahl sticks, and the rules of opposing traverse.

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https://archive.org/details/gamesofnorthamer00culirich

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The Academy · May 27, 2026

Discussion

What does this material reveal? Where else does it lead?