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All of the preceding were collected by Dr George A. Dorsey. 
Pomo. Lake village, Lake county, California. (Cat. No. 54474, 
Field Columbian Museum.) 
Set of six staves (figure 154) of elder wood, 15 inches in length, simi- 
lar to the preceding, but each with a different pattern. 
They were collected in 1899 by Dr George A. Dorsey, who desig- 
nates them as kaikadai. 
Ukiah, Mendocino county, California. (Cat. No. 70937, Field 
Columbian Museum. ) 
Astragalus of deer (figure 155), described by the collector, Dr J. W. 
Hudson, as used as a die. 
LUTUAMIAN STOCK 
Kuamatu. Upper Klamath lake, Oregon. (Cat. no. 61711, 61722, 
Field Columbian Museum.) 
Four pine staves (figure 156), 7 inches long, flat on one side, rather 
rounded on the other, and tapering to the ends. 
Fig. 156. Stick dice; length, 7{ inches; Klamath Indians, Oregon; cat.no. 61711, Field Columbian 
Museum. 
Two of the staves are marked by a series of nine parallel lines at 
each end and three parallel lines in the center, and are known as 
shnawedsh, women; the remaining two sticks are marked from end 
to end by zigzag lines crossing back and forth from side to side, and 
these are called xoxsha or hishuaksk, male person. All these lines 
have been burnt in by means of a sharp-pointed iron tool. 
The counting is as follows: ¢ 
«Certain Gambling Games of the Klamath Indians. American Anthropologist, n. s., v. 
3, p. 25, 1901. 
