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lonesome here, my son-in-law, return for a while to your own folks and 

 gamble with them.' Then handing him a set of alte and four t9tqnh* 

 he added : ' When you have won all that is worth winning, throw your 

 tatquh up over the roof of the house, and come back immediately. 

 Also remember not to speak to your former wife.' 



" The gambler then made his departure, and was soon again among 

 the people who had abandoned him. He was now a handsome and well- 

 dressed young man, and soon finding partners for his game he stripped 

 them of all their belongings, after which he threw his tstquh over the 

 roof of the lodge. He also met his former wife as she was coming from 

 drawing water, and, though she entreated him to take her back to wife 

 again, he hardened his heart and did not know her.f 



" Yet, instead of returning immediately after he had thrown his tatquh 

 over the roof, as he had been directed to do, his passion for atlih betrayed 

 him into playing again, Avhen he lost all he had won. He was thus 

 reduced to his first state of wretched nakedness. He then thought of 

 NoyaRhwoIluz, of his new wife and his new home, and attempted to 

 return to them, but he could never find them." 



A third chance game was proper to the women and was 

 played with button-like pieces of bone. It was based on the 

 same principle as dice, and, in common with atlih, it has long 

 fallen into disuse. Its name is atiyeh. 



The three bone implements which remain to be described have 

 likewise disappeared from among the Carriers to whom they 

 ' were proper. Thus fig. 69 shows a telni or ceremonial whistle, 

 which could not at present be identified by one-twentieth of the 

 living Carrier population. It is made of the larger wing bone of 

 the swan, notched near, and slit at, one end exactly as shown 

 in the above figure and without the insertion of any mouth- 

 piece. On great ceremonial occasions, the notable or native 

 Fig. 69. nobleman, who was privileged to accompany his dance there- 

 ^ '*'^'^" with, kept it constantly in his mouth unsupported by the hand, 

 and from time to time extracted therefrom loud, shrill notes, which 

 added not a little to the liveliness of the scene. 



The object represented by fig. 70 differs but little from the preceding, 

 the material being identical and the form almost so. But its use and 

 destination are widely different. It is a fsdn-kuz or " bone-tube " 



* A long throwing rod which serves to play another game. It will be figured and explained 

 further on. 



t In <he biblical sense of Cognovit. 



