CULIN] DICE GAMES: DELAWARES 69 
14; two plain sides down, two X-marked sides up, 56; all marked sides up ex- 
cept the stave with 14 X’s, 14; all marked sides up wins game. 
Cree. Coxby, Saskatchewan. (Cat. no. 15460, Field Columbian 
Museum. ) 
Set of dice consisting of four small bone diamonds and four hook- 
shaped objects of bone (claws) (figure 50), and a wooden bowl 
or plate shaped like a tin pan, 84 inches in diameter (figure 51). 
The dice are two-faced, one white and the other black, and are 
accompanied by a small beaded bag of red flannel. Collected by 
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Fic. 50. Bone dice; length, } Fig. 51. Platter and bag for dice; 
inch; Cree Indians, Saskatche- diameter,8 inches; Cree Indians, 
wan; cat. no. 15460, Field Co- Saskatchewan; cat. no. 15460, 
lumbian Museum. Field Columbian Museum. 
Mr Philip Towne, who describes the game as follows, under the name 
of pahkasahkimae, striking ground with wood bowl to shake up the 
bones: 
This game is played by any number of persons, either singly or in partner- 
ship. The dice are placed in the bowl, which is then given a sharp downward 
movement with both hands. The count is determined by combinations of the 
upper faces of the dice and is as follows: All white sides up counts 100; all 
dark sides up, 80; 7 white and 1 dark side up, 30; white sides of all hook- 
shaped dice and of one diamond-shaped die up, 10; dark sides of all hook-shaped 
dice and of 1 diamond-shaped die up, 8; white sides of 4 diamond-shaped dice 
and of 1 hook-shaped die up, 6; dark sides of 4 diamond-shaped dice and of 
1 hook-shaped die up, 4; each hook-shaped piece on edge, 2. One hundred 
points constitute the game. 
— Alberta. 
In Father Lacombe’s Cree Dictionary* we find jeu de hasard, 
pakessewin, and Rey. E. A. Watkins, 
in his Dictionary of the Cree Lan- 
guage,” gives pukasawuk, they gamble 
with dice. 
Detawares. Wichita reservation, Okla. 
(Field Columbian Museum.) 
Cat. no. 59376. Four rounded twigs 
fi ES 3° a. Fig. 52. Stick dice and counting 
(figure 52), 63 inches in length and ‘sticks; iengths, Gi sais cat 2 
three-eighths of an inch wide, all inches; Delaware Indians, Wichita 
d I is ed 1 reservation, Oklahoma; cat. no. 
grooved on the inner side, three 59376, Field Columbian Museum 
* Rey. Albert Lacombe, Dictionnaire de la Langue des Cris, Montreal, 1874.” London, 1865. 
