IMPLEMENTS BEARING SIGNIFICANT MAEKS. 191 



See also the ' Journal of the Anthropological Institute,' January 1873, vol. ii. p. 364, where Mr. Buckley 

 adds : " The system of markiug is by Jives. When the scores are equal in playing ball, the local expression 

 in Cork is ' all aboard.' The adage, ' it tallies with ' something else, is from the fact of the scores on either 

 side of the Tally-stick or -board being equal." 



" Among the people of the Himalaya mountains," says Dr. Campbell, op. eit. p. 364, " the ' tally ' is in constant 

 use in the occupations of ordinary life. A ' sirdar,' or head man of coolies, keeps a ' tally ' to enable him at the 

 end of the day to give his master the number of men present ; so in woodcutting, &c., a man will have a ' tally 

 to show the number of logs delivered, &c., .... kept .... generally on a piece of stick cut in the jungle, and 

 thrown away when the work is paid for. There are various ways of keeping a ' tally : ' a long notch may 

 indicate 5, 10, or 20 ; so 5 notches, with a notch across, may stand for 10 or 20, as the case may be." 



In the same Journal, loc. cit., A. W. Pranks, Esq., describes an interesting 

 aide-de-memoir e, or carved stick, bearing numerical indications, made for a 

 definite purpose by the New-Zealanders. 



" There is preserved in the British Museum an object of another kind, the use of which it would not be 

 easy to discover had it not been accompanied by a description of its meaning. It is a wooden staff, 

 3 feet 4| inches in length, surmounted by a figure, and covered with designs of the usual New-Zealand 

 pattern. Down one side are eighteen projections, of which the fifteenth is inlaid with a piece of green 

 jade. It was obtained in New Zealand by His Excellency Sir George Grey, who states it to record the 

 history of the Ngati-Rangitiki tribe, and to have belonged to a chief named Te-Rorokai, who used it to 

 aid his memory when recounting the history of the tribe." 



Pig. 71 (p. 192) is a reduced sketch of a Burmese Tally, presented to the Christy 

 Collection by J. M. Poster, Esq., P.S.A. It consists of a narrow piece of Bamboo 

 rind, carefully split into ten longitudinal strips ; and these are notched across at 

 regular intervals into sections (ten remain in this specimen). It is stated that 

 " one of the 100 sections is broken off as the article passes the tally-keeper, and 

 the remainder is handed in to account for the number passed." 



Gamekeepers with us are in the habit of cutting notches on a stick to keep 

 account of the number of game killed during a shooting excursion, different 

 notches being made for different kinds of game. In Wales, Cornwall, and else- 

 where labourers keep note of work done and wages due on sticks, with different 

 circles for different coins, and notches against them in the required numbers, or 

 with notches of different sizes and lengths for the several moneys and portions of 

 time : these are sometimes produced before Magistrates in proof of claims for earn- 

 ings. A Mexican shop-score is figured in E. B. Tylor's 'Anahuac,' 1861, p. 87. 



Pig. 72 (p. 192) illustrates a modern English flat Tally-stick*, belonging to a 



* Somewhat similar, but more complex, notchings on the edges and faces of a four-sided stick constituted 

 the chief character of the runic primstafF, runic calendar, clogg, and suchlike stick almanacks of olden times : 

 Dr. Plot's ' Nat. Hist. Staffordshire,' 1686 ; J. Brady's 'Clavis Calendaria,' 2 vols. 8vo, 1812 ; Dr. J. B. Davis's 

 memoir in ' Archseologia,' vol. xli. 1867; also ' Proc. Soc. Ant.' i. pp. 51, 284, and n. s. vol. i. p. 274 (a Tally). 



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