734 



REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1896. 



Its rouuded side has three parallel lines burned across the center, on 

 one side of which is an incised design resembling a serpent, and on the 

 other an undetermined figure. 



Kiowa. Indian Territory. (Cat. No. 152908(;, U.S.N.M.) 



Set of four sticks of elm wood, 8§ inches in length, >% inch in width, and 

 1% inch in thickness (fig. 54). Three with groove painted red and one 

 with groove painted black. Former burned with two sets of two parallel 

 marks about 1| inches apart across the grooved face near each end. 



The fourth stick has 



i /' A . \ a;>:> 7 ^n.\ Vy\> -v v/y X,. v. /v 7777X 77^ ^^ addition oblique 



\ / /\Xa/V.V'^/V\a,xa^vA vw y /- .■ / . ■' '-: J/W'/y-l marks burned across 



the center of the same 

 side, with two pyra- 

 midal dotted designs 

 ^ in the center of the 



f ^^'S^^y^^'^M^'^'^y^ KvV ' 'X^^ ^I^S^ opi)osite rounded side, 



winch on the others is 



p A^'^'^'^ •-' ;;.;r" '^^ -^^il^^ l^l • ; '; z^''' ':^;^: ;■•■ "- • ' • "- •■ : "; '' ':^)~\ plain. 



KiowA. Indian Ter- 

 ritory. (Cat. No. 

 152909a, U.S.N.M.) 



Set of four sticks, 5.^ 

 inches in length, ,^g- 

 inch in breadth, and 

 -1^6 inch in thickness 

 (fig. 55). Section 

 ellipsoidal. One side, 

 slightly flatter than 

 the other, is grooved 

 and marked with fine 

 cross lines, forming a 

 lozenge pattern. Three are painted red and one dark green. One of 

 the red sticks is burned in the center, with two parallel marks obliquely 

 across both the grooved and opposite side. The green stick has an 

 undetermined figure burned in the center of the rounded side, which 

 on the other two is plain. 



KiowA. Indian Territory. (Cat. No. 152909&, U.S.N.M.) 



Set of four sticks, 3| inches in length, -^^ inch in breadth, and ^ inch in 

 thickness. Flat sides grooved and ])ainted, three red and one black. 

 One of the red has an oblique incised line cut across the middle, and two 

 parallel lines on the opposite, rounded side. The black stick has a 

 small triangle cut lengthwise in the center of the rounded side, across 

 which is a transverse incised line. 



Kiowa. Indian Territory. (Oat. No. 152909c, U.S.N.M.) 

 Set of four sticks, ^ inches in length, {^^ inch in breadth, and ^ inch in 



Fig. 55. 



SET OF STAVES FOR GAMK. 



(The two lower sticks represent the obverses of those directly 



above.) 



Length, 5i inches. 



Kiowa Iniliaus, Indian Territory. 



C.it. No. 15'.'1)09<(, U.S.N.M. 



