Inspired by the card playing in the Mamie Smith - Harlem Blues vid Pan posted, I did a little googling on these two games, which we have discussed in various threads and for which, to my memory, we never came up with rules of play.
There is now a wikipedia page for Coon Can or Conquian which is pretty clear.
Georgia Skin is still a little less clear, but the gist of it can be gleaned from two humorous gambling forum discussions:
http://markgritter.livejournal.com/317064.html[Edit - Read down to the second description titled "Real Skinnin'"]
http://www.sportsunit.com/forum/showthread.php?p=39311
and then listening to this explanation by Zora Neale Hurston, which has a small mp3 format that should work for dial up:
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/h?ammem/flwpabib:@field(NUMBER+@band(afcflwpa+3137b1))
And there's also a transcription of Hurston here:
http://www.lizlyle.lofgrens.org/RmOlSngs/RTOS-DealGo.html
I also saw a mention that Georgia Skin is derived from Faro and Wikipedia now has a page for Faro as well, which gives some insight.
Apparently there were a lot of regionalisms in the rules of Georgia Skin.
Wax
There is now a wikipedia page for Coon Can or Conquian which is pretty clear.
Georgia Skin is still a little less clear, but the gist of it can be gleaned from two humorous gambling forum discussions:
http://markgritter.livejournal.com/317064.html[Edit - Read down to the second description titled "Real Skinnin'"]
http://www.sportsunit.com/forum/showthread.php?p=39311
and then listening to this explanation by Zora Neale Hurston, which has a small mp3 format that should work for dial up:
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/h?ammem/flwpabib:@field(NUMBER+@band(afcflwpa+3137b1))
And there's also a transcription of Hurston here:
http://www.lizlyle.lofgrens.org/RmOlSngs/RTOS-DealGo.html
I also saw a mention that Georgia Skin is derived from Faro and Wikipedia now has a page for Faro as well, which gives some insight.
Apparently there were a lot of regionalisms in the rules of Georgia Skin.
Wax