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and is played by the women, children, and old men, who, like grasshoppers, crawl 
out to the cireus to bask in the sun, probably covered only with an old buffalo 
robe. 
Wicuira. Wichita reservation, 
Oklahoma. (Cat. no. 59350, 
Field Columbian Museum.) 
Four split canes (figure 110), 6 
inches in length, the outer faces 
——S plain, the inner sides colored; 
Fia.110. Stick dice; length, 6inches; Wich- three red, one green. Collected 
ita Indians, Wichita reservation, Okla- 
homa; cat. no. 59350, Field Columbian by Dr George A. Dorsey. 
Museum. 
ESKIMAUAN STOCK 
Esxrmo (Crentran, Arvinirmiur, and Kinteeru). Keewatin. 
Dr Franz Boas describes the following game played with bones 
from seal flippers: 7 
Each bone represents a certain animal or an old or young person. They are 
divided into two equal parts. One bone is picked up from each pile, held up a 
few inches, and then let drop. Should one land right side up, it is looked upon 
as though it had thrown the other down in a fight. The one which fell wrong 
side up is then set aside, and another from the same pile is tried with the suc- 
cessful one in this way. This is carried on until one side wins. Then the last 
bone to win is called the bear, being strongest of all. The player who has lost 
the game so far takes the bone, holds it up to his forehead, and lets it drop. 
If it should land right side up, it is looked upon as though the bear has thrown 
him. Otherwise he is stronger 
than the bear. Children also use 
these bones for playing house. 
Eskimo (CrEntTRAL). Fro- 
bisher bay, Franklin. 
Captain Charles Franklin 
Hall? says: 
They have a variety of games of 
Fig. 111. Ivory dice in form of women and bird; 
their own. In one of these they Central Eskimo, Cumberland sound, Franklin; 
use a number of bits of ivory cat. no. 3$2,, 38°,, American Museum of Natural 
made in the form of ducks, ete. History; from Boas. 
Cumberland sound, Franklin. (Cat. no. s$%,, 3$$,, Amer- 
ican Museum of Natural History.) 
Doctor Boas figures three ivory dice (figure 111) in the form of 
women, and one representing a bird.© Collected by Capt. James S. 
Mutch. 
Elsewhere ? Doctor Boas says: 
A game similar to dice, called tingmiujang—i. e., images of birds—is fre- 
“Eskimo of Baffin Land and Hudson Bay. Bulletin of American Museum of Natural 
History, v. 15, p. 112, New York, 1901. 
» Arctic Researches, p. 570, New York, 1860. 
¢ Eskimo of Baffin Land and Hudson Bay. Bulletin of American Museum of Natural 
History, v. 15, p. 54, New York, 1901. = 
¢The Central Eskimo. Sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, p. 567, 1888. 
