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inches apart across the grooved face near each end. The fourth stick 
has in addition oblique marks burned across the center of the same 
side, with two pyramidal dotted designs in the center of the opposite 
side, which on the others is plain. 
Cat. no. 1529094. Set of four sticks (figure 137), 54 inches in length, 
seyen-sixteenths of an inch in breadth, and three-sixteenths of an 
inch in thickness; section ellipsoidal. 
Fic. 136. Stick dice (the lowest stick shows obverse of one next aboye it); length, 8? inches; 
Kiowa Indians, Oklahoma; cat. no. 152908c, United States National Museum. 
One side, slightly flatter than the other, is grooved and marked with 
fine cross lines, forming a lozenge pattern. Three are painted red 
and one dark green. One of the red sticks is burned in the center 
with two parallel marks obliquely 
across both the grooved and the 
opposite side. The green stick has ce 
an undetermined figure burned in cope 
the center of the rounded side, (SS SS 
= which on the other two is plain. 
Cat. no. 152909). Set of four 
sticks, 32% inches in length, 
five-sixteenths of an inch in 
breadth, and one-eighth of an 
inch in thickness; the flat ic. 197. Stick dice (the lowest two sticks 
sides Too ed and ainted, show obverses of the two next above); 
sa and pi length, 5} inches; Kiowa Indians, Okla- 
three red and one black. homa; cat. no. 1529090, United States Na- 
Cat. no. 152909c. Set of four tional Museum. 
sticks, 53 inches in length, five-sixteenths of an inch in breadth, 
and one-eighth of an inch in thickness. 
One of the red sticks has an oblique incised line cut across the mid- 
dle and two parallel lines on the opposite (rounded) side. The black 
stick has a small triangle cut lengthwise in the center of the rounded 
side, across which is a transverse incised line. 
The flat sides are grooved and have triangular expansions of the 
groove at each end. Three are painted red and one black; one of the 
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