716 



REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1896. 



Navajo. Arizona. (Cut. No. 74735, U.S.N.M.) 



Set of seven blocks of cedar wood, i| inch in length, -^g inch wide, 

 and ^ inch thick (fig. 40). Section hemispherical. Six have fiat sides 

 blackened and one painted red; opposite unpainted. Collected by Dr. 

 Washington Matthews, U. S. A. The game was "played with counters 

 by women." These blocks furnish an exact parallel to the Korean 

 "chestnut" nyout. 



Fig. 40. _ 



SET OF BLOCKS FOR GAME. 



Length, f inch. 

 Navajo Indians, Arizona. 



Cat. No. 74735, U.S.N. M. 



BEOTHUKAN STOCK. 



Beothuk. Newfoundland. 



From colored drawings of ancient bone disks, attributed to the Beo- 

 thuk, and presented to the United States National Museum by Lady 

 Edith Blake, of Kingston, Jamaica, it would appear that this tribe may 



have used gaming disks 

 resembling those of the 

 Micmac. 



CADDOAN STOCK. 



Arikara. (Cat. Nos. 

 6342,0355, U.S.N.M.) 



Set of eight plum 



stones, plain on one 



side, and marks burned 



upon the other, as 



shown in fig. 41. Four 



have stars on burned 



ground; two, circular 



marks, and two are entirely burned over. Basket of woven grass, 7 



inches in diameter at top, and 2 inches deep. Collected by Dr. Gray 



and Mr. Matthew F. Stevenson. 



Brackeuridge,^ referring to the Arikara, states: 



In the evening, about sundown, the women cease from their labors and collect into 

 little knots, and amuse themselves with a game something like jackstoues. Five 

 pebbles are tossed up in a small basket, with which they endeavor to catch them 

 again as they fall. 



Fig. 41. 



SET OF PLUM STONES FOB GAME. 



Diameter, J J inch. 

 Arikara Indians. 



Cat. No. 6355, U.S.N.M. 



' H. M. Brackenridge, Views of Louisiana, together with a Journal of a voyage up 

 the Missouri River in 1811, Pittsburg, 1814. 



