92 GAMES OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS _ [5TH. Ann. 24 
the preceding, 1 and 14 inches in diameter. Collected by the 
writer in 1900. 
They are used by women in a game called by the same name as the 
‘dice, yeoul mat. 
Two women play. The four dice are shaken together in the hands, the palms 
clasped together, and the dice let fall upon a blanket. The larger dice are 
ealled mi-ni-kiau, and the smaller, mi-ni-skek; the concave sides, tak-ai-tim-it, 
and the convex, you-tim-it. Two heads and two tails count; four heads count 
1; four tails count 1. Other plays do not count. The count is kept with ten 
sticks, which are put in the center between the two women and drawn out as 
they win. When the center pile is exhausted they draw from each other until 
one woman wins the ten sticks. The game is played at any time.¢ 
A Crescent City Indian, whom the writer met at Arcata, California, 
gave the name of the dice described above as tchuthut; large dice, 
tchaka; small dice, mushnai; concave sides, gaemun; convex sides, 
youtowitmun; let us play dice, chitat. 
Kawcnopinng. Mackenzie. (Cat. no. 7404, United States National 
Museum. ) : 
Four wooden blocks (figure 92), 1$ inches in length, said to be for a 
Fic. 92. Wooden dice; length, 1; inches; Kawchodinne Indians, Mackenzie; cat. no. 7404, United 
States National Museum. 
game. They have a rounded base, with two transverse cuts, and 
are perforated, as if for stringing. Collected by Maj. R. Kenni- 
cott on the Arctic coast. 
Navawo. St Michael, Arizona. 
Rev. Berard Haile? describes the following game: 
Ashbi’i, the crossed-stick game. Two sticks are used, about 4 or 5 inches 
long. One side of the sticks is colored red, the other black. Hach stick has 
on each side four marks, cuts, in the center. A blanket is placed on the ground 
and another attached above it to the ceiling. The sticks are crossed so that 
*The following vocabulary for the game was collected for the writer by Dr Pliny E. 
Goddard: Dice, ki wil-mat; large dice, mi-ni ki-a-O; small dice, mi-ski-itz; convex sides, 
tla-kis ; concave sides, muk-kus. 
> Under date of June 5, 1902. The information was obtained from a medicine man 
named Qatqali nadloi, Laughing Doctor. 
