CHESS AND PLAYING-CARDS. 



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buttons, there being- a hole on the reverse in which the shank fitted. 

 The designs on the faces are not the same. The woman informed Mr. 

 Starr that the game was called Altes tugen, and that it was played by 

 two i)ersons, one of whom places the counting sticks in a pile together. 

 Then the stones are placed at random in the plate, which is held in 

 both hands and struck sharply on the ground so as to make the stones 

 fiy in the air and turn before landing in the i)late again. A player 

 continues as long as he scores, taking counters from the pile of sticks 

 according to his throw. When the pile is exhausted, each having ob- 

 tained part, the game is continued until o;ie wins them all. Three plain 

 sticks count one point. The three carved sticks each count four points, 



Fig. 25. 



BONE GAMINS DISKS. 



Diameter, 1 inch. 



Tobique (Micniac) Indians, New Brunsvvitk. 



Cat. No, i*01y5, Museum Archaeology, University of PennsylvanKi. 



or twelve plain sticjks. Tbe snake-like stick is kept to the hist, and equals 

 three plain sticks, and a tlirow that counts three is necessary to take it. 



Mtcmac. New Brunswick. (Cat. No. 50804, Peabody Museum.) 



Set of six dice made of antler, f to ^ inch in diameter, marked on flat 

 side with six-rayed star.; bowl of birch wood, 11:| inches in diameter, 

 and fifty-four counting sticks (fig. 27), consisting of fifty plain sticks 

 and four larger sticks. The latter comprise one stick with three serra- 

 tions on side near one end, two each with four serrations, and one 

 resembling the feathered shaftment of an arrow with three serrations 

 on either side. Collected by Mr. G. M. West. 



MiCMAC. Hampton, New Brunswick. (Cat. No. 50792, Peabody 

 Museum.) 

 Five dice of antler, f to ^ inch in diameter, marked on flat side with 

 four-rayed star; bowl of birch wood, 9 J inches in diameter, and fifty-two 



