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When five marked sides turn up and one blank one he makes 1 point, or 3 
counters. But when he makes the same throw again in succession to the above, 
he wins 3 points, or 9 counters. Whenever a player has all the blanks turned 
up he has the privilege of throwing again. 
Mremac. New Brunswick. (Peabody Museum of American Arche- 
ology and Ethnology.) 
Cat. no. 50804. Set of six dice made of antler, three-fourths to 
seven-eighths of an inch in diameter, marked on flat side with a 
six-rayed star; bowl of birch wood, 114 inches in diameter, and 
fifty-four counting sticks (figure 70), consisting of fifty plain 
sticks and four larger sticks. The latter comprise one stick with 
three serrations on side near one end, two each with four serra- 
tions, and one resembling the feathered shaftment of an arrow 
with three serrations on each side. 
Fig. 70. Counting sticks for dice; length, 8 to 8} inches; Micmac Indians, New Brunswick; cat. 
no. 50804, Peabody Museum of American Archeeology and Ethnology. 
Cat. no. 50792. Five dice of antler, three-fourths to seven-eighths 
of an inch in diameter, marked on the flat side with four-rayed 
star; bowl of birch wood, 94 inches in diameter; 52 counting 
sticks, consisting of 48 plain sticks and 4 larger sticks. 
The latter comprise one stick with five serrations on one side near 
one end, two with four serrations each, and one resembling a feath- 
ered arrow shaftment with serrations on each side. The counting 
sticks in this and the preceding game are in part of bamboo. 
Both were collected by Mr G. M. West. 
Missisauca. New Credit, Ontario. 
Rey. Peter Jones“ says: 
In their bowl plays they use plum stones. One side is burnt black, and the 
other is left of its natural color. Seven of these plums are placed in a wooden 
bowl, and are then tossed up and caught. If they happen to turn up all white 
or all black they count so many. This is altogether a chance game. 
Narracanser. Rhode Island. 
Roger Williams, in his Key into the Language of America,? 
> London, 1643. (Collections of the Rhode Island Historical Society, v. 1, p. 145, 
Providence, 1827; also, Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society, for the year 
1794, v. 3, p. 324.) Cited by Andrew McFarland Davis, in Bulletin of the Essex Insti- 
tute, v. 18, p. 178, Salem, 1886, to whom I am indebted for the reference. 
