692 



REPOKT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1896. 



(fig. 14), and basket of woven grass 8i inches in diameter at top and 

 2^ inches deep (fig. 15). Both sides of the bottom are covered with 

 cotton cloth. Played by women. Collected by Mr. James Mooney, 1891. 



Mr. George Bird 

 Grinnell has kindly 

 furnished the writer 

 with the following un- 

 published account of 

 the Cheyenne basket 

 game, which he de- 

 scribes under the name 

 of Mon shl mo ut. 



rig. 12. 



SET OF WOODEN DICE. 



Length, IJ inches. 

 Arapaho Indians, Indian Territory. 



Cat. No. 165765«, U.S.N.M. 



The Cheyenne seed, or 



basket game, is played 



with a shallow bowl and five plum stones. The bowl (Plate 4) is from 3 to 4 inches 



deep, 8 inches across at the top — flattened or not on the bottom — and woven of grass 



or strips of willow twigs. It is nearly one-half an inch thick, and is strong. All 



Fig. 13, 

 GAMINU DISKS, BONE AND WORKED PEACH STONES. 



Diameters, IJ and jg inches. 

 Arapaho, Oklahoma. 



Collection of Charles H. Stephens. 



five seeds are unmarked on one side, but on the other (Plate 4) three are marked 

 with a figure representing the paint patterns often used by girls on their faces, 

 the cross being on the bridge of the nose, the side marks on the cheeks, and the 



Fig. 14. 

 SET OF BONE DICE. 



Lengths, J and IJ inches. 

 Cheyenne Indians, Indian Territory. 



Cat. No. 162803, U.S.N.M. 



upper and lower ones on the forehead and chin, respectively. The other two stones 

 are marked with a figure representing the foot of a bear.' 

 These plum-stones are placed in the basket, thrown up and caught in it, and the 



' Mr. Cushing identifies the mark of the cross with a star and the other with a 

 bear's track, referring, respectively, to the sky and earth. 



