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the throws are given below, the sides of the seeds being designated by their 
marks: Two bianks, two bears, and one cross count nothing; four blanks and 
one bear count nothing; five blanks count 1 point and the thrower takes one 
stick ; three blanks and two bears count 1 point and the player takes 1 stick; 
one blank, two bears, and two crosses count 1 point and thrower takes one 
stick ; two blanks and three crosses count 3 points and the thrower takes three 
sticks; two bears and three crosses count 8 points and the thrower takes eight 
sticks, and wins the game. 
The women do not sing at this game, but they chatter and joke continually as 
the play goes on. 
Fig. 33. Plum-stone dice; Cheyenne Indians, Montana; in the collection of Dr George Bird 
Grinnell. 
Doctor Grinnell states that the specimens figured came fronr the 
Northern Cheyenne agency, officially known as the Tongue River 
agency, in Montana, the Indians living on Rosebud and Tongue rivers, 
which are tributaries of the Yellowstone from the south. At the 
same time the southern Cheyenne of Oklahoma have the same game. 
Cueyvenne. Oklahoma. 
Mr Louis L. Meeker, late manual training teacher in the Cheyenne 
school at Darlington, refers to the Cheyenne dice game in a communi- 
Fic. 34. Basket for dice; Cheyenne Indians, Montana; in the collection of Dr George Bird 
Grinnell. 
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vation on Cheyenne Indian games made to the Bureau of Ethnology. 
He says the bone dice, marked differently on one side, are shaken in a 
basket of Indian manufacture. The game and ordinary playing 
eards are both called moncimon. 
Col. Richard Irving Dodge says:4 
Our Wild Indians, p. 330, Hartford, 1882. 
