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other dice. Nine consist of small fragments of cane (figure 8w), 
made to include a joint, and slightly flattened and marked with 
notches at each end, on the flat side. Two of these are somewhat 
shorter than the rest and have the joint smoothed down. Another set 
of four wooden dice from the same place is accompanied by a finely 
wrought wooden cup 2 inches in height and 12 inches in diameter. 
These dice are three-fourths of an inch in length, slightly flattened 
on one side, the rounded part being marked with burned devices, as 
shown in figure 84. Another similar dice cup in the same collection 
contains three wooden dice (figure 8c) and two cane dice like those 
first described. The wooden dice in these two sets appear to be copies 
of canes. 
ALGONQUIAN STOCK 
AxuconkKiIn. Three Rivers, Quebec. 
Pierre Boucher ¢ says: 
The game of the dish is played with nine little flat round bones, black on 
one side, white on the other, which they stir up and cause to jump in a large 
wooden dish, preventing them from striking the earth by holding it in their 
hands. Loss or gain depends upon the largest number of one color. The game 
paquessen is almost the same thing, except that the little bones are thrown into 
the air with the hand, falling upon a robe spread on the ground like a carpet. 
The number of one color determines loss or gain. 
AmatecireE (Matecrre). New Brunswick. (Cat. no. 20125, Free 
Museum of Science and Art, University of Pennsylvania.) 
Set of six disks of caribou bone marked on the flat side (figure 9); a 
platter of curly maple cut across the grain, 114 inches in diam- 
Fic. 9. Bone dice; diameter, 1 inch; Amalecite (Malecite) Indians, New Brunswick; cat. no. 
20125, Free Museum of Science and Art, University of Pennsylvania. 
eter; and fifty-two wooden counting sticks about 8 inches in 
length (figure 10), four being much broader than the others 
and of different shapes. 
These were collected and deposited by Mr George E. Starr, who 
purchased the game from a woman named Susan Perley, a member 
“Histoire Véritable et Naturelle des Moeurs et Productions du Pays de la Novelle 
France, ch. 10, Paris, 1664. 
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