CHESB AND PLAYING-CARDS. 



713 



ATHAPASCAN STOCK. 



White Mountain Apache. Arizona. (Cat. No. 152696, U.S.Is.M.) 



Set of three sticks of hazel wood, 8 inches in length, f inch wide, 

 and about f in thickness. Flat on one side, with diagonal black band 



Fig. 35. 



SET OF BONE GAJIING STAVES. 



Length, 6§ inches. 

 Blackfeet, Blood Reserve, Alberta, Canada. 



Cat. No. 51654, Field Columbian Museuin. 



across middle; other rounded and unpainted. Show marks of use. 

 Collected by Mr. Edward Palmer.^ Described as played by women 



IMg. 36. 

 GAMING STAVES. 



Length, 9h inches. 

 Wliite Mountain Apache, Fort Apache, Arizona. 



Cat. No. 1»61H, Museum of Arclia'ology, University of Fciinsylvania. 



upon a circle^ of forty stones divided in four tens with a division to eacli 

 ten (lig. 37), and having a large flat rock placed in the middle. Four 



I A set of sticks (fig. 36) made of a variety of the prickly ash, 9i inches in length, 

 but otherwise identital with the .above, are contained in the Museum of Arch;vology 

 of the University of Pennsylvania (Cat. No. 18619), collected by Capt. C. N. B. 

 Macauley, II. S. A. 



'^Mr. Palmer says a scj^uare; Captain Maeauley a circle. 



