CULIN] DICE GAMES: POMO 1381 
Dr Boas informs me that one die is used. The counts are: 
Hither side up, 0; back or front up, 1; bottom up, 2. 
The dice are thrown upon a thick tablet of leather about 8 inches 
square, cut with a totemic device. One (cat. no. E 606, figure 139) 
has the device of a bear’s head. Another (cat. no. E 1057) a beaver, 
and still another (cat. no. E 2404) an unidentified animal. 
Similar dice are used by the Haida and possibly by the Kwakiutl. 
KULANAPAN STOCK 
Pomo. Teulaki, Mendocino county, California. (Cat. no. 54473, 
Field Columbian Museum.) 
Six wooden staves (figure 140), 17 inches in length, flat on one side, 
the other convex, with rounded ends, the convex faces decorated 
with burned designs, in two slightly different patterns; accom- 
panied with twelve counting sticks, rudely whittled, 11 inches 
in length. 
The collector, Dr George A. Dorsey, who obtained these objects in 
1899, describes the game as follows: 
Fig. 140. Stick dice; length, 17 inches; Pomo Indians, Tculaki, California; cat. no. 54473, Field 
Columbian Museum. 
Name, ka-dai. Twelve is the game. All white, kule-kule-ka, counts 2; all 
black, katse-mal da butchin, counts 3; three white, three black, bubu-kule-ka, 
counts 1. It is played by women. 
Ukiah, California. (Field Columbian Museum.) 
Cat. no. 61085. Six staves (figure 141) of elder wood, 10 inches in 
length, similar to the preceding, decorated alike on the rounded 
face with a burned figure, designated as kawinatcedi, turtle-back 
pattern. 
