910 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1896. 



painted with red and black ribbons. Four inlaid with small disks and 

 rectangles of abalone shell. Ends nipple- shaped and inset with disks 

 of abalone shell. Tsimshian. Collected by Dr. Franz Boas. 



Set of sixteen willow gambling-sticks (Cat. No. g-^-), 5-j% inches in 

 length and -^^ inch in diameter, in small fringed buckskin pouch, 

 stitched with an ornamental figure in red and green silk. All marked 

 with ribbons of red paint. Kslakyapamuk (Thompson River Indians 

 Salishan) Interior of British Columbia. Collected by Mr. James Teit. 



The following sets of sticks are in the Museum of Archaeology of the 

 University of Pennsylvania : 



Set of forty alder wood gambling-sticks (Cat. Ko. 15322), 4|f inches in 

 length and 1% inch in diameter, in leather pouch. In part marked 

 with red and black ribbons, in part with obliterated ribbons, and in 

 part plain. Ends hollow, showing pith. Originally filled uith some 

 white substance. Northern Alaska. Collected by Lieut. Miles C. 

 Gorgas, U. S. N. 



Set of forty-four polished maple gambling sticks (Cat. No. 15491), 

 4yf inches in length and -^g inch in diameter, in leather i)ouch. All 

 marked with red and black ribbons. Ends flat. 



Set of forty seven alder wood gambling-sticks (Cat. No. 15492), 5-^ 

 inches in length and -1% inch in diameter, in leather pouch. Thirty-two 

 are marked with red and black ribbons and fifteen are plain. Ends 

 inset with shell beads. Two banded sticks from another set are also 

 contained in the pouch. 



Set of sixty-three polished birch or larch wood gambling-sticks 

 (Cat. No. 18372), 5--^ inches in length and j% inch in diameter, in 

 leather pouch. All marked with red and black ribbons. Ends flat. 



The following sets of sticks are in the Field Columbian Museum, 

 Chicago.' 



Set of fifty-five wood gambling sticks (Cat. No. 18349), 4f inches in 

 length, in leather i)ouch. Variously figured. Ends rounded. Bella 

 coola; British Columbia. Collected by Dr. Franz Boas. 



Set of twenty-four wood gambling-sticks (Cat. No. 18348), 4^ inches 

 in length, in leather pouch. Twenty one painted in various ways, and 

 three carved to represent human figure. Bellacoola; British Columbia. 

 Collected by Dr. Franz Boas. 



Set of forty-two wood gambling-sticks (Cat. No. 18350), 4f inches in 

 length, in leather j)ouch. Variously marked with colored ribbons. 

 Ends rounded. Bellacoola; British Columbia. Collected by Dr. Franz 

 Boas. 



Set of sixty-five wood gambling-sticks (Cat. No. 10017), 4g inches in 

 length. Marked with colored ribbons. Ends rounded. Kwakiutl. 

 Collected by Dr. Franz Boas. 



' I am iiulebted to Prof. William H. Holmes for the detiiiled inrormation liere given. 



