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two of each score 1; four alike score 4. The thrower keeps on throwing until 
he makes a blank throw, when another takes the dice. When all the players 
have stood their turn, the one who has scored most takes the stakes, which 
in this game are generally small, say a “ bit.” 
Nisuinam. Mokelumne river, 12 miles south of Placerville, Cali- 
fornia. 
Dr J. W. Hudson describes a dice game, played with four half 
acorns cast into a basket, under the name of ha. 
Te’-0, the dice plaque basket is often oval in shape. Two alike up or two 
alike down count 1; all alike up or down, 2. 
SALISHAN STOCK 
Bextxiacoota. British Columbia. (Field Columbian Museum.) 
Cat. no. 18422. Bone die, copied from a beaver tooth, 13 inches in 
length, the center tied with a thong and one face decorated with 
twelve dots in six pairs. 
Cat. no. 18434 and 18435. Bone dice, two similar to the above, but 
with chevron devices; length, 14 inches. 
Cat. no. 18416 to 18419. Wooden dice (figure 181), similar to the 
preceding, two carved with chevrons and two with dots; length, 
94 inches. 
All these specimens were collected by Mr Carl Hagenbeck. 
Fig. 181. Wooden dice; length, 2} inches; Bellacoola Indians, British Columbia; cat. no. 18416 
to 18419, Field Columbian Museum. 
Crattam. Washington. 
A Clallam boy, John Raub, described to the writer the beaver-teeth 
dice game, as played by this tribe, under the name of smitale. The 
two teeth marked with dots are called swaika, men, and the two marked 
with chevrons, slani, women. Playing cards are called smitale. 
Port Gamble, Washington. (Cat. no, 19653, Field Columbian 
Museum). = 
Set of four beaver-teeth dice, two with straight lines and two with 
circles. Collected by Rev. Myron Eells. 
Mr Eells writes: 
Precisely the same kind are used by the Twana, Puyallup, Snohemish, Che- 
halis, and Quenaielt; in fact, by all the tribes on Puget Sound. I have obtained 
them from the Twana and Quinaielt. 
