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The former are burned with four diagonal marks, resembling the 
feathering of an arrow on alternate sides of the groove near each 
end. The fourth stick has in addition two parallel marks burned 
directly across the middle. Its rounded reverse is burned with a 
design in the shape of a diamond. 
) The reverses of the others are plain. 
= Cat. no. 152908d. Set of four sticks 
= — of willow wood or chestnut 
sprout, 8? inches in length, , 
three-fourths of an inch in 
breadth, and five-sixteenths of 
an inch in thickness (figure 
135). 
F1G.134. Stick dice (the lowest stick shows Three have flat sides with length- 
obverse of one next above it); length, 5} Wise groove painted red, with par- 
inches; Kiowa Indians, Oklahoma; cat. no. : : S : 
152908), United States National Museum. allel oblique lines like arrow- 
feathering burned on alternate sides 
of the groove at the ends, opposite to which are similar marks 
arranged im triangles. The rounded reverses of these sticks are 
plain. The fourth stick has an incised device painted black and 
resembling two feathered arrows, the heads of which meet a trans- 
verse band cut across the middle. Its rounded side has three parallel 
lines burned across the center, on one side of which is an incised 
design resembling a serpent and on the other an undetermined 
figure. 
(JANINE Ry ER a RY PPTs j 
LIL Sf AT a ANN GNGNG) 
RUAN AY 2 VZV ZILIA 7S LM 
FiG. 135. Stick dice (the lowest stick shows obverse of one next above it); length, 8} inches; 
Kiowa Indians, Oklahoma; cat. no. 152908d, United States National Museum. 
Cat. no. 152908¢. Set of four sticks of elm wood, 8] inches in length, 
nine-sixteenths of an inch in width, and five-sixteenths of an 
inch in thickness (figure 136); three with groove painted red 
and one with groove painted black. 
The former are burned with two sets of parallel marks about 1 
