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from which I conclude it was small, and threw them up. However, they played 
with only one set at a time, viz., seven chips, either round or flat ones. Accord- 
ingly as the color of the chips faced the ground, points were scored. Six white 
and the seventh red won the game, while all blacks did not score as much. 
Frank Walker, one of Father Berard’s interpreters, recognized the 
name taka-thad-sata, or thirteen cards, given by Doctor Matthews as 
that of a similar game which is so called in legends, but said that 
daka tsostsedi is more generally known and spoken of. 
Sexanr. British Columbia. 
Sir Alexander Mackenzie* gives the following description of the 
game of the platter. 
The instruments of it consist of a platter or dish made of wood or bark and six 
round or square but flat pieces of metal, wood, or stone, whose sides or surfaces 
are of different colors. These are put into the dish, and after being for some 
time shaken together are thrown into the air and received again in the dish with 
considerable dexterity, when by the number that are turned up of the same 
mark or color the game is regulated. If there should be equal numbers the 
throw is not reckoned; if two or four, the platter changes hands. 
Takxutu. Stuart lake, British Columbia. 
The Reverend Father A. G. Morice” wrote: 
A third chance game was proper to the women and was played with button- 
like pieces of bone. 
It was based on the same principle as dice, and, in common with atlih, it has 
long fallen into disuse. Its name is atiyéh. 
BEOTHUKAN STOCK 
Brornun. Newfoundland. 
From colored drawings of ancient bone disks attributed to the 
Beothuk, and presented to the United States National Museum by 
Lady Edith Blake, of Kingston, Jamaica, it would appear that this 
tribe may have used gaming disks resembling those of the Micmac. 
CADDOAN STOCK 
Artxara. North Dakota. (Cat. no. 6342, 6355, United States Na- 
tional Museum.) 
Set of eight plum stones, plain on one side, with marks burned on the 
other, as shown in figure 99. Four have stars on a burnt 
ground; two, circular marks; two are entirely burned over. 
Basket of woven grass, 7 inches in diameter at the top and 2 
inches deep (catalogued as from the Grosventres). Collected 
by Dr C. C. Gray and Mr Matthew F. Stevenson, 
* Voyages from Montreal, p. 142, London, 1801. 
» Notes on Western Dénés. Transactions of the Canadian Institute, y. 4, p. 81, Toronto, 
1895. 
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