158 GAMES OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS  [eTH. ann. 24 
Twana. Washington. 
Rev. Myron Eells thus describes the women’s game: @ 
The dice are made of beavers’ teeth generally, but sometimes from musk- 
rats’ teeth. There are two pairs of them, and generally two persons play, one 
on each side; but sometimes there are two or three on each side. The teeth 
are all taken in one hand and thrown after the manner of dice. One has a string 
around the middle. If this one is down and all the rest up, or up and the 
rest down, it counts 4; if all are up or down, it counts 2; if one pair is up 
and the other down, it counts 1; and if one pair is up or down and the other 
divided, unless it be as above when it counts 4, then it counts nothing; 30 is a 
game; but they generally play three games, and bet more or less, money, dresses, 
or other things. They sometimes learn very expertly to throw the one with the 
string on differently from the others, by arranging them in the hand so that 
they can hold this one, which they know by feeling, a trifle longer than the 
others. 
SHAHAPTIAN STOCK 
Kaurkirat. Washington. (Cat. no. 20955, Free Museum of Science 
and Art, University of Pennsylvania.) 
Three beaver-teeth dice, two marked with five circles with central 
dot and one with chevrons on flat side. All have ends wrapped 
with sinew to prevent splitting and one with circles and one with 
chevrons are wrapped about the middle with sinew. Collected 
by Mr A. B. Averill. 
Yakima. Yakima reservation, Washington. (Cat. no. 37512, Free 
Museum of Science and Art, University of Pennsylvania.) 
Four sticks, 52 inches in length, triangular in section, one side flat 
and plain and the other two sides marked with dots and cross 
lines as shown in figure 
185. Collected by the 
writer in 1900. 
The dice and game are called 
pomtaliwit. The two sticks marked 
Fic. 185. Stick dice; length, 5} inches; Yakima In- with cross lines are called walou, 
dians, Washington; cat. no. 37512, Free Museum yan, and the two with dots, 
of Science and Art, University of Pennsylvania. 
woman. It is a woman’s game, 
played by two persons and counted with twenty counting sticks, il quas. The 
counts are as follows: All heads up counts 2; all tails up, 1; two heads and 
two tails, 1. 
My informant, a Dalles (Wasco) Indian named Jack Long, stated 
that the game was also played by the Klikitat and Dalles Indians. 
The former call the game tskaiwit. The game is played on a blanket, 
and the sticks are tossed up with the hands. 
* Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey, y. 111, p. 90, Washington, 1877. 
