CHESS AND PLAYING-CARDS. 



767 



Tlio counts are iis iollowa: 



2 tlat and notched sticfc notches np = 15 

 15 rountl sides nj) ^= 10 



3 flat sides nj) = 5 

 2 dat and 1 round side not notched up = 1 

 1 Mat aud 2 round sides uot uotched up := 1 



This game is usually phiyed all night on the night of November 3d of each year. 

 November 3d is known as '' The Day of the Dead," aud this game seems iu some way 

 to be connected with it, or rather with its celebration, but I can uot tind out any 

 tradition (Miuuectiug the two. 



WAKASHAN STOCK. 



KwAKiUTL. Britisli Columbia. 



Dr. Franz Boas' describes these Indians as using- wooden dice 

 (tig. 93) in a game called Eihai/u. "The casts count according to the 

 narrowness of the sides.'' The dice collected by him are iu the Field 

 Columbian Museum. 



Fig. 94. ^^^ 



BEAVER TEETH DICE. 



Length, 2 to 2J iuches. 

 Makah lutlians, Neali Bay, Washiugtou. 



Cat. No. 233.il, U.S.N.M. 



Makah. Neah Bay, Washington. (Cat. No. 2;'>351, U.S.N.M.) 



Seven beaver teeth, probably part of two or more sets. Two — right 

 and left — a[)i)arently from the same animal are similarly marked on tlie 

 Hat si«le with chevron pattern (fig. 94 AB). Two. also apparentl^^ 

 from the same animal, marked with circles and dots (fig. 94 CD). Two 

 leeth — right and left — are marked with three chevrons, and one odd 

 toiith has ten circles. Collected by Mr. J. G. Swan. 



The following account of the game is given by the collector: 

 Four teetli are used; one side of each lias marks aud the other is plain. If all 

 four marked sides come up. or all four i)Iaiu sides, the throws form a double; if two 

 marked and two ])laiu ones come up, it is a single; iineveu numbers lose.- 



'Sixth Report on tlic Indians of British Columbia, p. 10. 



= The Indians of Cape riattery, Smithsoniau Contributions to Kuowledge, 2l'U,p. 44. 



