CHESS AND PLAYING-CARDS. 



745 



Dr. Lumboltz informs me tliat (prince is played by throwing^ the four 

 staves against a flat stone, the counts being kept around a diagram 

 (fig. 07), which consists of holes pecked in the rock, about 3 by 4 feet. 



PUJUNAN STOCK. 

 XiSHiNAM. California. Powers' gives the following account: 



The ha is a gaiiio of dice, played by men or women, two, tlirt'e, or four togetlier. 

 TLc dice, fonr in number, consist of two acorns split lengthwise into halves, with 

 the outsides scraped and painted red or black. They are shaken in the hands and 

 thrown into a wide, Hat basket, woven in or- 

 namental patterns, sometimes Avorth $25. 

 One paint and three whites, or vice versa, 

 score nothing; two of each score one; four 

 alike score four. The thrower keeps on throw- 

 ing until he makes a blank throw, when 

 another takes the dice. "When all the i)lay- 



ers have stood their turn, the one who has V. 



scored most takes the stakes, which in this 

 game are generally small, say a "bit." 



SALISHAN STOCK. 



Clallam. Port Gamble, Washing 

 ton. (Cat. I^o. ]!)r)5;3, Field Co- 

 lumbian Museum, Chicago.) 

 Set of four boaver teeth dice, two 

 with straight lines and two with cir- 

 cles. Collected by llev. Myron Eells. 

 Mr. Eells Avrites: 



Precisely the same kind are used by the 

 Twana, Puyallup. Snohomish, Chehalis, and 

 Qneniut, in fact by all the tribes on Paget 

 Sound. I have obtained them from the 

 Twana and Qneniut. 



To this list Mr. Eells has added 

 the Cowlitz, Lummi, Skagit, and 

 Squaxon and the Soke of British 

 Columbia. 



Tulalip Agencj^, 

 (Cat. No. 130990, 



Fig. 68. 



BEAVER TEETH DICE. 



Lenstli, 1 J to 2 inches 



Snohomish ( I ) Iiulians, Tidalip Agency, 

 AVashington. 



Cat. No. 130990, U.S.N.II. 



Snohomish ( ?)- 



Washington. 



U.S.N.M.) 



Set of four beaver teeth dice ( fig. G8). 



Two, both lefts, stopped at end and marked on flat side with rings 



and dots, and two, rights and lefts, both apparently from the same 



animal, with both sides plain. Twenty-eight radial bones of birds, 



' Contributions to North American Ethnology, Washington, 1877, III, p. 332. 



-It is not possible to determine the tribe exactly. The tril)es atthe Tulalip Agency 

 are given in Powell's Indian Linguistic Families of North America as follows: Sno- 

 homish, 443; Madison, 141; Muckleshoot, 103; Swinomish, 227; Lummi, 295. 



