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but the managers knew tlie state of the game with accuracy. In playing it there 

 were but two winning throws, one of which counted one and the other five. When 

 one of the parties had lost all their beans, the game was done. 



The implemeuts for a Seneca bowl game in the possession of Mr. John 

 N. B. Hewitt, of the Bureau of American Ethnology, obtained by him 

 from the Seneca Indians, Cattaraugus Reservation, Cattaraugus 

 County, New York, consist of a wooden bowl (fig. r>0), 9| inches in 

 diameter, and six dice made of fruit stones. A set of bone gaming 

 disks from the same tribe and place, also in his i)ossession, are repre- 

 sented in plate 0. As will be seen, they are eight in number, and 

 marked on one side, in a similar way to those of the Micmac and 

 Penobscot. 

 TUSCAROEA C?), North Carolina. 



Referring to the North Carolina Indians, Mr. John Lawson' writes: 



They have several other games, as with the kernels or stones of persimmons, 

 which are in effect the same as our dice, because winning or losing depends on 

 which si<le appears uppermost and how they happen to fall together. 



Again, speaking of their gambling, he says"^: 

 Then- arithmetic was kept with a heap of Indian grain. 



He does not specify this game as played by any particular tribe in 

 North Carolina, and it was probably common to all of them. 



KERESAN STOCK. 



Laguna. New Mexico. 

 Capt. George H. Pradt, of Laguna, writes as follows: 



The game played with a circle of small stones is called, liy the Keres pueblos, 

 " Ka-w:t-su-kuts." ' The stones number forty, and are divided into tens by openings 

 called doors or gates called " Si-am-nia;" the doors are placed north, south, east, 

 and west. 



In the center of the circle is placed a^flat stone, upon which are thrown the three 

 counters. These are flat pieces of wood about 4 inches long, .V inch wide, and ^ inch 

 thick; painted black on one side, and marked with 2, 3, and 10 marks, respectively. 

 The counters are firmly grasped with the ends down, and forcibly thrown (ends 

 down) on the stone in the center, in such a manner that they will rebound, and 

 the marks, if any are uppermost, are counted, and the player lays his marker (a 

 small stick like a pencil) between the stones the proper distance from the starting 

 point to record the number. The starting point is one of the "doors," whichever is 

 selected, and the game is played by any number that can assfiiible around the circle. 

 A player can go around the circle in either direction, but if another player arrives at 

 tliesame point he "kills" the previous player and that one is obliged to go back to 

 the starting point; the lirst one making the circuit successfully wins the game, 

 which is generally played for a small stake. The game is modified sotnetimes by 

 ruling that if a player falls into one of the doors he must go back, but in this case the 

 player is not obliged to go back if another happens to mark as many points as he. 



iSometimes a round stone is painted to resemble a face and has a wreath of ever- 



' The History of North Carolina, London, 1719, p. 176. 

 2 Page 27. 



3 Meaning a "punch" or sudden blow, the only name the Laguna have for it. 

 (G.H.P.) 



