70 GAMES OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS  [ErH. ann. 24 
having grooves painted red and one green; outer faces plain; 
accompanied by seven counting sticks, 44 inches'in length. 
Cat. no. 59377. Four rounded strips of cane (figure 53), 62 inches 
long and one-half of an inch wide, with inner sides painted like 
the preceding. Both of the above sets were collected by Dr 
George A. Dorsey in 1901. 
Detawares. Ontario. 
Dr Daniel G. Brinton * gives the following account derived from 
conversation with Rey. Albert 
Seqaqkind Anthony: 
A third game occasionally seen is 
maumun’di. This is played with 
twelve flat bones, usually those of a 
: deer, and a bowl of wood constructed 
F1G.53. Stick dice; length, 6} inches; Delaware for the purpose. One side of each 
Indians, Oklahoma; cat. no. 59377, Field Co- 2 
lumbian Museum. 
bone is white; the other colored. They 
are placed in the bowl, thrown into 
the air, and caught as they descend. ‘Those with the white side uppermost are the 
winning pieces. Bets usually accompany this game, and it had, in the old days, 
a place in the native religious rites, probably as a means of telling fortunes. 
Pennsylvania. 
Tn Zeisberger’s Indian Dictionary ” we find: 
Die, to play with, mamandfean. 
Grosventres. Fort. Belknap reservation, Montana. (Field Colum- 
bian Museum.) 
Cat. no. 60326. Four wooden staves (figure 54) 94 inches in length, 
plain on one side and marked on the other with burnt designs; 
two alike. 
These were collected in 1900 by Dr George A. Dorsey, who gives 
the following account of the game under the name of tagawatse 
tothetsan : 
The staves are thrown from the hand upon a stone or on the ground, the 
value of the throw depending on the nature of the combination of uppermost 
faces. When all faced lots fall uppermost the count is 6. When all unmarked 
lots fall uppermost the count is 4. When two lots fall face up and two down 
the count is 2. 
This is a woman’s game, and formerly heavy stakes were laid on the outcome 
of the game. 
Cat. no. 60295. Four wooden staves (figure 55), 104 inches in length, 
two painted green with incised lines painted red, both alike, and 
two painted red with incised lines painted green; similar but not 
alike; one of the two red sticks tied with two thongs. The re- 
verses are plain, painted in solid color. 
Accompanied with 12 counting sticks, 10 white and 2 with bark on, 
94 inches in length. They were collected by Dr George A. Dorsey, 
“Yolklore of the Modern Lenape. Essays of an Americanist, p. 186, Philadelphia, 
1890. 
>» Cambridge, 1887. 
