CULIN] DICE GAMES: 
who describes the game under 
tothetsan : 
The staves are thrown from the 
hand upon the end, on stone or on 
the ground, the count or value of the 
throw being as follows: Plain side of 
banded stave and marked side of other 
staves, 6; marked side of banded 
stave and plain side of other staves, 6; 
all marked or all plain sides upper- 
most, 4; pair of two marked or plain 
uppermost, 2. The count is kept with 
twelve wooden sticks, athsan, the game 
continuing until one opponent or the 
other has won all the counters. The 
stave with the buckskin bands is known 
as “ netha.” 
Grosventres. Fort Belknap reservation, Montana. 
GROSVENTRES 0 
the same name of tagawatse 
Fig. 54. Stick dice; length, 9} inches; Gros- 
ventre Indians, Fort Belknap reservation, 
Montana; cat. no. 60326, Field Columbian 
Museum. 
(American Mu- 
seum of Natural History.) 
Ve 5 
Cat. no. zetky. 
on one side. 
Ye 5 
Cat. no. 345. 
Four wooden staves, 9 inches in length, painted red 
Four wooden staves, 8 inches in length, painted yel- 
low, with burnt marks on one side; accompanied by 12 counting 
sticks, 8} inches in length, painted yellow. 
Fic. 55. Stick dice and counting sticks; length of dice, 10} inches; of counters, 9} inches; Gros- 
ventre Indians, Fort Belknap reservation, Montana; cat. no. 60295, Field Columbian Museum. 
Vs 5 0 
Cat. no. 7385. 
Four wooden staves, 94 inches in length, painted yel- 
low, and having oneside incised with red marks; accompanied by 
12 counting sticks, painted yellow, 10 inches in length. 
Cat. no. 7345. 
incised marks; accompanied 
Four bone staves, 
8 inches in length, one side with 
by 12 counting sticks, cat. no. 
<h%5a, 94 inches in length, made of willow, pointed at end. 
Collected by Dr A. L. Kroeber. 
Fort Belknap reservation, Montana. 
seum. ) 
Cat. no. 60332. 
Set of six triangular bone dice, length 1} 
(Field Columbian Mu- 
inches, 
three alike with spots on one face, and three alike with incised 
