156 GAMES OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS  [=ru. ann. 24 
To this list Mr Eells has added the Cowlitz, Lummi, Skagit, and 
Squaxon, and the Sooke, of British Columbia. 
Nisquatir. Washington. 
Mr George Gibbs states: 
The women have a game belonging properly to themselves. It is played 
with four beaver teeth, méh-ta-la, having particular marks on each side, They 
are thrown as dice, success depending on the arrangement in which they fall. 
In his dictionary of the Nisqualli, the name of the game is given 
as metala, smetali; the highest, or four-point in dice, kes. 
Qurnatetr. Washington. (Cat. no. ;}%,, American Museum of 
Natural History.) 
Four beaver-teeth dice. Collected by Dr Livingston Farrand. 
Suuswap. Kamloops, British Columbia. 
Dr Franz Boas” says: 
The games of the Shuswap are almost the same as those of the coast tribes. 
We find the game of dice played with beaver teeth. 
Snonomisn (?).° Tulalip agency, Washington. (Cat. no. 130990, 
United States National Museum.) 
Set of four beaver-teeth dice (figure 182); two, both lefts, stopped 
at the end and marked on the flat side with rings and dots, and 
Fig. 182. Fig. 183. 
Fic. 182. Beaver-teeth dice; length, 1; to 2 inches; Snohomish (?) Indians, Tulalip agency, 
Washington; cat. no. 130990, United States National Museum. 
Fic. 183. Counters for beaver-teeth dice; length, about 3 inches; Snohomish (?) Indians, Tulalip 
agency, Washington; cat. no. 130990, United States National Museum. 
two, rights and lefts, both apparently from the same animal, with 
both sides plain; 28 radial bones of birds, about 3 inches in 
length (figure 183), used as counters. Collected by Mr E. C. 
Cherouse and designated by him as a woman’s game. 
«Contributions to Nort American Ethnology, v. 1, p. 206, Washington, 1877. 
> Second General Report on the Indians of British Columbia. Report of the Sixtieth 
Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, p. 641, London, 1890. 
¢It is not possible to determine the tribe exactly. The tribes at the Tulalip agency 
are given in Powell’s Indian Linguistic Families of America as follows: Snohomish, 443; 
Madison, 144; Muckleshoot, 103; Swinomish, 227; Lummi, 295. 
