CHESS AND PLAYING-CARDS. 913 



set of sixty-six' curly-grained cedar-wood gambling-sticks (Cat. ISTo. 

 18908), 5fV inches in length and ^^e inch in diameter, in leather pouch. 

 All, with one exception, marked with red and black ribbons. Ends 

 ovate. Sitka, Alaska. Collected by Mr. J. G. Swan. 



Set of thirty polished wood gambling-sticks (Cat. ^o. 18936), 5 inches 

 in length and i^g inch in diameter, in leather pouch. Fifteen painted 

 with red and black ribbons and fifteen plain. Ends flat. Sitka, Alaska. 

 Collected by Mr. J. (i. Swan. 



Set of thirty-four swamp or spotted beech or hazel gambling-sticks 

 (Cat. No. 20789), 4j| inches in length, i% inch in diameter, in leather 

 pouch. All marked with red and black ribbons and five inlaid with from 

 one to three strips of abalone shell, rectangular, round, crescent, and 

 triangular. Ten of the sticks not having shell inserted have lengthwise 

 cracks filled with metallic iron. Ends nij^ple-shaped. Sitka, Alaska. 

 Collected by Mr. J. G. Swan. 



Set of fifty-one polished wood gambling-sticks (Cat. No. 20790), 4|§ 

 inches in length and i% inch in diameter, in leather pouch. Nineteen 

 marked with red and black ribbon and thirty-two plain. Ends flat. 

 Sitka, Alaska. Collected by Mr. J. G. Swan. 



Set of forty-six polished wood gambling-sticks (Cat. No. 89074), 5-^ 

 inches in length and -i% inch in diameter, in leather pouch. Forty-three 

 marked with red and black ribbons and three plain. Ends have small 

 flat annular projection. Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia. 

 Collected by Mr. J. G. Swan. 



Set of fifty maple gambling-sticks (Cat. No. 89180), 5 inches in length 

 and yig inch in diameter, in leather ponch. All painted with red and 

 black ribbons. Ends flat. Skidgate, British Columbia. Collected by 

 Mr. J. G. Swan. 



Set of sixty-four redwood cedar gambling-sticks (Cat. No. 20G46), 5J 

 inches in length and h inch in diameter, in leather pouch, the inside of 

 which is painted with figure of an animal. All painted with red and 

 black ribbons. Bellabella; British Columbia. Collected by Mr. J. G. 

 Swan. 



Set of fifty-six maple gambling-sticks (Cat. No. 20647), 5;^ inches in 

 length and ^ inch in diameter, in leather pouch. All painted with red 

 and black ribbons, and nineteen- inset with abalone shell in designs of 

 circles, crescents, triangles, and rectangles. Ends flat. Fort Simpson, 

 British Columbia. Collected by Mr. J. G. Swan. 



Set of fifty- three curly-maple gambling-sticks (Cat. No. 88804), 5^ 

 inches long and fV inch in diameter, in leather pouch. All painted with 

 red and black ribbons. One inlaid with one and another with two 

 small rectangles of abalone shell. Queen Charlotte Islands, British 

 Columbia. Collected by Mr. J. G. Swan. 



' Catalogued as 68. 



-Nine with one, six with two, and four with three plecL's. 



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