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red sticks is marked like the one in the preceding, and the black stick 
in the same manner. 
These Kiowa sticks were all collected by Mr James Mooney. In 
each set there is an odd stick. 
KOLUSCHAN STOCK 
Turneirr. Alaska. (American Museum of Natural History.) 
Cat. no. 225. Small ivory die (figure 138d), shaped like a chair; 
height 1 inch, twelve-sixteenths 
of an inch wide at back, and 
ten-sixteenths of an inch at 
side, with a vertical hole from 
top to bottom filled with lead. 
Fig. 138. Ivory and wooden dice; Tlingit It is called ketchu and came from 
Indians, Alaska; cat. no. E 894, 19 650, 
E 1859, 19 650, E 1857, American Museum Shakan. 
ore Nabura TU Sory Cat. no. 2. Small wooden die 
(figure 1380), like preceding, the sides engraved with crossed 
lines. The back of the die has four lead plugs and a hole for a 
similar plug. The front has an incised rectangular design with 
three lead plugs. 
Cat. no. E 894. Small ivory die (figure 1382), like the preceding; 
height 1 inch, twelve- 
sixteenths of an inch 
wide at back, and 
eight-sixteenths of an 
inch at side; front 
face having small 
plug of lead. 
Cat. no. E 1857. Small 
wooden die (figure 
138e), like the pre- 
ceding, 1,4; inches 
high, twelve-six- 
teenths of an inch 
wide at back and 
sides; the back and 
three sides marked 
with incised lines. 
Cat. no. E 1859. Small Fig. 139. Leather tablet on which dice are thrown: height, 
wooden die (figure 7} inches; Tlingit Indians, Alaska; cat. no. E 606, Amer- 
1380) ‘ dale the pre- ican Museum of Natural History. 
ceding, fifteen-sixteenths of an inch high and nine-sixteenths of 
an inch wide at side; perfectly plain. 
All these specimens were collected in Sitka by Lieut. George T. Em- 
mons, U. S. Navy. They are designated as women’s gambling dice. 
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