cULIN] DICE GAMES: PAWNEE 99 
designs, on which the canes are thrown, and eight counting sticks, 
8}? inches in length (figure 102). Collected by Dr George A. 
Dorsey. 
Pawnee. Nebraska. 
Mr John B. Dunbar says: 4 
The women also were addicted to games of chance, though with them the 
stakes were usually trifling. The familiar game with plum stones, stk’-u, and 
another, l0k’-ta-kit-au’-1-Cik-u, played with a bundle of parti-colored rods about 
a foot in length, were much in vogue among them. 
— Oklahoma. (Field Columbian Museum.) 
Cat. no. 59522. Set of four stick dice, made of slips of cane, 8 inches 
in length, entirely plain. 
Cat. no. 59413. Set of four stick dice, made of slips of cane, 124 
inches in length, curved sides plain, concave sides painted, two 
red and two green. 
Cat. no. 59519. Set of dice, similar to the above, 134 inches in length, 
one with concave side painted red and having an incised line 
painted red on the convex side; one with concave side blue and 
a line with feather-like marks on the reverse; one with concave 
side yellow, and an incised line painted yellow on the reverse, 
and one with the concave side painted white, with a long un- 
painted line with a cross mark on the reverse. 
Fic. 103. Cane dice; length, 16) inches; Pawnee Indians, Oklahoma; cat. no. 59523, Field Colum- 
bian Museum. 
Cat. no. 59523. Set of dice, similar to the preceding, 16} inches in 
length (figure 103). Insides painted yellow, red, green, and 
plain, and three crosses incised on reverse. Each has a feather 
attached by a thong at one end. 
Cat. no. 59415. Four sticks (figure 104), 84 inches in length, one 
side rounded and burned with marks, as shown in the figure, 
the other flat with a groove painted red. Accompanied with a 
square of buffalo hide, 27 by 32 inches, marked in black with two 
rows of eight lines, a row on each side, each with seven divisions, 
on which the bets are laid. 
* The Pawnee Indians. Magazine of American History, v. 8, p. 751, New York, 1882. 
