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12 B OARD G AME S TUDIES 6, 2003 Vilhelmina is situated in an area with a mixed Swedish- and Sámi-speaking population, while Boda is situated to the south of the part of Sweden inhabited by Sámit. It seems that we have no evidence of this game being played in Denmark, Norway or by the Sámit in Sweden or Norway, nor do we know of any parallels to the particular dice stick used in Boda. The somewhat different shape of the dice, combined with the eastern distribution area of this game makes it rather unlikely that there was any direct connection between this type of stick dice and that used in daldøs(a) and sáhkku. It would certainly be interesting to know more about the dice sticks used in the Finnish and Estonian versions of this game, but I have not been able to find any information about that subject. ‘Put-and-take’ teetotums and dice sticks In a recent article in Danish (Michaelsen 2002) I have discussed various designations of ‘put-and-take’ and teetotum games. A large part of my article is devoted to the Danish dialect names used for these games, but I also discuss a number of foreign game names. Various variants of sáhkku were played along the coasts of Nordland, Troms and Finnmark in Northern Norway, in the area around the Norwegian-Russian border, in the extreme north of Finland, on Spitzbergen, and in Siberia. (8) At least two Sámi peoples used to play not only sáhkku, but also a much simpler game of chance with dice. This tradition was described by Toivo Immanuel Itkonen in 1941. (9) The Skolt Sámit used to play with a 4- or 8-sided dice top, named kieppa-ker’tsa, which had numbers on it. The four-sided top had an X and vertical or horizontal lines (Fig. 4), while the eight-sided top had a blank side and Arabic numbers from 1-7 or an X and numbers from 15-21. The Inari Mountain Sámit of Northern Finland played with an 11-sided dice top, named pir’tsu like the sáhkku game and the dice used in that area. Each side had 1-10 horizontal cross lines indicating the number of points. The eleventh, blank side corresponded to zero points (Fig. 5). This was spun around in a kneading-trough, around which the participants, not more than 11 persons, were sitting. The Swedish-speaking minority of Finland knew a similar tradition, playing a game of chance with a four-sided trissa, which was a dice top with 1-4 ristor (strokes). (10) It is easy to find points of resemblance between the design of these dice tops and the design of the sáhkku dice. It is much more difficult to tell how these similarities arose. The tradition of using crosses, cross lines, and blank sides on the dice is probably older among the Sámit than the use of Arabic numerals. We know from Johannes Scheffer’s Lapponia, printed in Frankfurt in 1673, that the Sámit north of the Bothnic Bay already then used to play with wooden dice with a cross cut into one of the sides. (11) Cross lines and other lines resembling Roman numerals are also found on the sticks used in a variant of the spellicans or jackstraw game, played by Sámit and Swedes in Jämtland in Northern Sweden. In Swedish this game is called påfvespel (‘pope game’) or stöupstickan. (12) (Fig. 6) Some of the signs on these sticks are very similar to those found on the sáhkku dice, but, on the other hand, possible non-European parallels make it plausible that to some extent such markings are actually universal symbols. (13)
P. M ICHAELSEN, ON SOME UNUSUAL TYPES OF STICK DICE 13 Fig. 4.Three types of Skolt Sámi dice tops: a 5,5 x 2,7 Petsamo, Suonikylä, b 5,4 x 2,5 Suonikylä, c Petsamo, Kolttaköngäs (in Itkonen 1941). A dice top similar to type a is in the National Museum of Finland, SU 4922:193. Fig. 5. Dice top used by the Inari Mountain Sámit. 6,5 x 3,5 cm (in Itkonen 1941). Fig. 6, a. Påfvespel (pope game) from Frostviken, Northern Sweden. From left to right: ace, pope, emperor, king, queen, knight, and knight lady (from Keyland 1910). Fig. 6, b. Stöupstickan from Myssjö, Northern Sweden. From left to right: Lapp, smallholder, farmer, knight, lady, king, emperor, pope, ace, double ace. (Drawing by Alf Næsheim, based on Karlholm 1980).
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