444 THE TLINGIT INDIANS [eth. ann. 26 



A set of gambling sticks obtained by Lieut. G. T. Emmons, and 

 now in the possession of the American Museum of Natural History 

 in New York, contains, among others, the following-named sticks, as 

 ascertained by him. The writer has added the plionetic equivalents and 

 introduced one or two minor changes in translation that seemed to be 

 required l)y the accompanying Tlingit word. A large fish called tan, 

 eel (lut!), robin (cuq!), dead brush (tciic), flounder (dzA'nti), porpoise 

 (tcltc), sea-lion head (tan ca'yi), sea lion (tan), salmon eye (xat wa'ge), 

 dog (keL), mosquito (ta'q!a, literallj- '" biter"), red paint (leq!), sea-lion 

 bladder (tan yu'wu), red devilfish (ieq! naq), silver salmon (gat), 

 halibut (tcfiL), beaver (slAge'di), a sacred plant, probably blue helle- 

 bore (slikc), red snapper (leq!), a deep dish (klAkAue'), eulachon (sak), 

 earring (guk kAdja'c), hide snare for catching bears (da's I a), osprey 

 (cayfi'l), red-flicker feather (kun t!a'wu), Bear people (xuts! qowu'), 

 grizzly bear (xutsi), red flicker (kun), star (qotxA'uAxa), spring 

 (tiikul'ti), the king salmon after ascending into fresh water and turning 

 red (qlfik), blue jay ((jlecq!"), intestine of sea lion (tan na'si), male 

 grouse (nukt), salmon trap (cal), deer (qowaka'n), hawk (kidju'k), 

 spruce-gum sticks for kindling tire (tel), a large dog (sawa'k), moun- 

 tain sheep (tawe'), squirrel berry (tinx), lunnlock (yen), land otter 

 (ku'cta), shark (tus!), a berry of blue color (kAUAtIa'), burnt trees 

 after forest fires (kugA'nti), sun (gAga'n), rain (si'wu), [chief that wears] 

 a dance hat (cAudaku'q! [sla'ti]), m;dlard (kindAtcune't), clul) (klus!), 

 grouse devilfish (kfiq! naq), humpljack salmon (teas I), [man] sitting in 

 it (Atu'tAa, perhaps the name of an arrow), elderberrj" (yex!), moon (dis), 

 fire ((jlan), deer devilfish (qowaka'n niui), devilfish (naq). 



A second set, obtained b^' Lieutenant Emmons at Kake, contains the 

 following names: A large dog (sawa'k), sea-pigeon's neck or a savage 

 bear (sakl'l), black bear (silk), raven (j'el), red snapper (let) I), grizzly 

 bear (xuts I ), burnt stick (kAga'n-ta, or possibly a sea bird called ke'gAn), 

 stone ax (tayl's), robin (cuq!, a naq), raven (j'ei), island (q!at!), crab 

 (s!a-u), hawk (kidju'k), crow (ts!Axwe'l), a Tlingit (llngi't), the con- 

 stellation of the Great Dipper (YAxte'), woman (cawA't), red-winged 

 flicker (kun), salmon (xat), and petrel (gAnu'k). 



Another game was played with two principal sticks called nahe'n and 

 naga'n — from the former of which the game derived its name — and a 

 large number of common sticks used as counters. The first two are 

 oval and just short enough to be concealed in the hand. Naga'n is 

 carved and nahe'n is entirely plain. Participants in this game seat 

 themselves in two parties, but only one person on each side handles 

 the sticks. He who does so passes them rapidly back and forth in his 

 hands, behind his back, until the leader on the opposite side says, 

 " Hands out (dA'kde djin),'- when he has to stretch his hands out straight 

 in front, inclosing the sticks. When his opponent has fixed upon that 

 one in which he thinks naga'n is held, he says, "This one (he'do)," 



