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Show DICE USED BY THE ANCIENTS j Picture on Pottery of Men Playing 1 With Cubes In New Mexico Valley. ' How a vanished race which once lived In the isolated Rio Mlmbras valley val-ley of Southern New Mexico "shot craps' has been revealed by prehistoric prehis-toric pottery dug up near Derulng. In a scientific report Just Issued by the Smithsonian Institution Dr. J. Walker Fewkes of the bureau of American ethnology describes crockery showing scenes of and figures from the dally life of a people whose very existence was doubted until a few years ago. On the bottom of a broken jar there Is a gambling scene representing three men playing a game with dice, the spots on which can be plainly seen. This artistic work was accomplished accom-plished In an Isolated valley whose rivers have no outlet to the sea. It lies midway between the Pueblo and Mexican region, and shows affinities with the culture of both. Detroit News, |