72 GAMES OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS  [x2ru. Ann. 24 
lines as shown in figure 56. One die in each lot has a single 
spot on-the reverse, the other reverses being plain. 
Cat. no. 60331. Set of six peach-stone dice, length 14 inches, three 
alike with transverse burned bands and three alike with burned 
marks, shown in figure 57. One die in each lot has two burned 
marks on the reverse, the other reverses being plain. 
Cat. no. 60358. Set of nine plum-stone dice (figure 58), length 1 inch, 
three alike with transverse bands, three with cross marks, and 
three with small spots, one die in each lot having a single dot on 
the reverse, the other reverses being plain. 
Collected in 1900 by Dr George A. Dorsey, who gives the following 
account of the game under the name of besnan-bethetsan. 
Six dice are used and tossed in a basket or wooden bowl, the value of the 
throw being determined when certain combinations fall as follows: All marked 
faces up or all down count 6; three marked faces up or down, 38; two marked 
faces up and four down, 2; four marked faces up and two down, 2. In many 
Fig. 56. Fig. 57. Fig. 58. 
Fic. 56. Bone dice; length, 1} inches; Grosventre Indians, Montana; cat. no. 60332, Field Colum- 
bian Museum. 
FiGc.57. Peach-stone dice; length, 1; inches; Grosventre Indians, Montana; cat. no. 60331, Field 
Columbian Museum. 
Fig. 58. Plum-stone dice; length, 1 inch; Grosventre Indians, Montana; cat. no. 60358, Field 
Columbian Museum. 
sets of this game is found an extra group of three dice; these may be sub- 
stituted for either of the two other groups of three by any player whenever 
she desires to change her luck. This is a woman’s game, and formerly heavy 
stakes were wagered on the outcome. 
Tuuinois. It would appear from the manuscript Illinois dictionary 
of Rev. James Gravier,* now in the John Carter Brown 
library, that this tribe was familiar with the game of plum 
stones. 
Kickapoo. Kickapoo reservation, Oklahoma. (Cat. no. 70702, 
Field Columbian - Museum.) 
Set of eight dice (figure 59), halves of peach stones, one carved to rep- 
resent a tortoise and one to represent a bird, the carved pieces 
« Andrew McFarland Davis, in Bulletin of Essex Institute, vy. 18, p. 187, Salem, 1886. 
