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NSLAKYAPAMUK (Niakiipaiiinx). 



Tli()ini)son Kiver Indians, interior of Britisli Columbia. (Cat. No. -9^%, 

 Anier. Mas. of Nat. Hist., New York.) 



Set of four beaver teeth dice (tij>:. 70); one, partly sjdit, wrapped with 

 sinew. JM;irke<l on one face with lines and dots. Opposite sides plain. 

 Collected by Mr. James Teit. 

 SiioosHWAP. British Columbia. 



Dr. Boas' states they play the game of dice with beaver teetli. 

 TwANA. Washington. 



Bev. M. Eells writes:^ 



The dice are made of beavers' teetli generally, but sometimes from iiuiskrats' 

 teeth. There are two pairs of them, and generally two persons play, one on each 

 s'ide, bnt sometimes there are two or three on each side. The teeth are taken in one 

 hand and thrown after the manner of dice. One has a string around the middle. 

 If this one is down and all the rest are up, or up and the rest down, it counts four; 

 if all are up or down, it counts two; if one pair is up and the other down it counts 

 one; if one ])air is up or down and the other divided, unless it be as above, when ib 

 counts four, then it counts nothing; 30 is a game, but they generally jday three 

 games, and bet more or less, money, dresses, or other things. They sometimes learn 

 very expertly to throw the one with the striiig on diii'erently from the others, by 

 arranging them in tlie hand so they can hold this one, which they know by feeling, 

 a tritle longer than the others. 



SHAHAPTIAN STOCK. 



Klickitat. Wasliington. (Cat. No. 20055, Mus. Arch., Univ. Benn.) 

 Thiee beaver teeth dice, two marked with five circles with central 

 dot and one with chevrons on Hat side. All have ends wrapped with 

 sinew to prevent splitting. One with circles and one with chevrons 

 wrapped about the middle with sinew. Collected by Mr. A. B. Averill. 



SHOSHONEAN STOCK. 



Comanche. Kiowa Reservation, Indian Territory. (Cat. No. 152911a, 

 U.S.N.M.) 

 Set of six bone dice, having both faces convex, and bearing on one 

 face incised designs (fig. 71) filled with red paint. The reverses are 

 plain, with the exception of the third from the left, which has a cross 

 inscribed upon the back. The device on the face of this die was 

 Intended to re[)resent the head of a buffalo, which is more ])lainly 

 delineated upon one of the Mandan dice (fig. 81). Two of the plum 

 stones in the Sioux game described by Colonel McChesney (p. 700) 

 have a buffalo head on one side, opposite to which is a cross. Col- 

 lected by Mr. James Mooney, IbOl. Described by the collector as 

 played by women, and shaken up in a basket. 



Comanche. Kiowa Beservation, Indian Territory. (Cat. No. 152911/;, 

 U.S.N.M. 

 Set of six bone dice with designs like those on the preceding, but 



' Second General Keport on the Indians of British Columbia, p. 641. 

 '^Bulletin, U. S. Geological and Geographical Survey, III, No. 1, p. 89. 



