98 GAMES OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS: [2rH. ann. 24 
H. M. Brackenridge,’ referring to the Arikara, states: 
In the evening, about sundown, the women cease from their labors and collect 
in little knots, and amuse themselves with a game something like jackstones : 
five pebbles are tossed up in a small bas- 
ket, with which they endeavor to catch them 
again as they fall. 
It seems hardly necessary to point out 
é 3 ¢ ,.9 that he failed to comprehend the object 
of the game. 
Fig. 99. Plum-stone dice; diameter, }3 ‘ os = 
inch; Arikara Indians, North Da. CADDO. Oklahoma. (Field Colum- 
kota; cat. no. 6355, United States bian Museum.) 
aie earns Cat. no. 59366. Four slips of cane 
(figure 100), 64 inches in length, three painted red on the inside 
and one black. 
Cat. no. 59372. Four slips of cane (figure 101), 114 inches in length, 
painted black on the inner side. 
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Fig. 101. 
Fic. 100. Cane dice; length, 6} inches; Caddo Indians, Oklahoma; cat. no. 59366, Field Columbian 
Museum. 
Fig. 101. Cane dice: length, 114 inches; Caddo Indians, Oklahoma; cat. no. 59372, Field Colum- 
bian Museum. ' 
Fic. 102. Cane dice board and counting sticks; length of canes, 7} inches; length of board, 11 
inches; length of counters, 8} inches; Caddo Indians, Oklahoma; cat. no. 59370, Field Colum- 
bian Museum. 
Cat. no. 59370, Four slips of cane, 74 inches in length, painted on 
the inside; one yellow, one red, one blue, one green; with a flat 
rectangular board, 34 by 11 inches, with incised and painted 
* inne of Louisiana, together with a Journal of a Voyage up the Mieeoutl River, in 
1811, p. 251, Pittsburg, 1814. 
