736 



REPORT OP NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1896. 



Small ivory die (Cat. No. E. 894) (Plate 7), like preceding. Height 1 

 inch, {I inch wide at back, and i% inch at side. Front face has small 

 plug of lead. 



Small wooden die (Cat. No. E. 1557) (Plate 7), like preceding, IJ 

 inches high, \^ inch wide at back and sides. Back and three sides 

 marked with incised lines. 



Small wooden die (Cat. No. E. 1859) (Plate 7), like preceding, {f. inch 

 high and ^\, inch wide at side. Perfectly plain. 

 From Sitka. Designated as woman's gambling die. 

 All the above were collected by Lieutenant Emmons. 



Dr. Boas informs me that one die is used. 

 The counts are: Either side up = 0; back 

 or front up = 1; bottom up = 2. The dice 

 are thrown upon a thick tablet of leather 

 cut with a totem ic device, about 8 inches 

 square. One (Cat. No. E. GOG, tig. 5G) has 

 the device of a bear's head. Another (Cat. 

 No. E. 1057) a beaver, and still another (Cat. 

 No. E. 2101) an unidentitied animal. Similar 

 dice are used by the KwakiutJ. (See p. 71G.) 



LUTUAMIAN STOCK. 



Klamath. Oregon. (Cat. No. 2112G, 

 U.S.N.M.) 

 Four woodchuck teeth dice (fig. 57). Two, 

 both lefts, stopped at the end with red cloth, 

 and marked on the flat side with chevron 

 pattern, and two, somewhat smaller, one 

 right and the other left, apparently from 

 the same animal, marked on the same side 

 Collected by L. S. Dyer, Indian Agent. 

 The game is described by Dr. Albert S. Gatschet,' under the name of 

 SJ^iishash. 



The four teeth of tbe bt-aver aro marked for this game by the incision of parallel 

 lines or crosses on one side, and a small piece of woolen or other cloth is inserte<l 

 into the hollow to prevent breaks in lalling. The two longer or upper teeth of the 

 beaver are called the male (lakf), the pair of lower and shorter the female teeth 

 (giilo) kiilu; distributive form: kiikalu. The marked side of the teeth wins, if it 

 is turned up after dropping. The teeth of the woodchuck (nui-i, moi) serve for the 

 same pnrxjose. 



A further account of the game is found in the text translated by J)r. 

 Gatschet: 



The Klamath Lake females play a game with beavers' teeth, letting them drop 

 on a rubbing stone. When all the teeth fall with the marked side uppermost, they 

 win two checks. If both female teeth fall right (marked) side up, they win one 

 check. If both male teeth fall right side up, they win one check. Falling 



Fig. 57. 



SET OP WOODCHUCK TEETH DICE. 



Length, IJ to IJ iiiclics. 

 Klamath Indians, Oregon. 



Cat. No. S4126, U.S.N.M. 



with five small holes. 



' The Klamath Indians, Contributions to North American Ethnology, Washington, 

 1890, II, Pt. 1, p. 81. 



