CULIN] DICE GAMES: PAIUTE 167 
Parute. Southern Utah. (Cat. no. 9411, Peabody Museum of 
American Archeology and Ethnology.) 
Fourteen strips of cane, 52 inches long, with the inner, curved sides 
painted red (figure 205). Collected by Dr Edward Palmer and 
said to be used on the dice principle, the red sides only being 
counted. 
— Pyramid lake, Nevada. (Cat. no. 19045, United States Na- 
tional Museum. ) 
Eight slips of split cane, painted red on the inside, 11 inches in 
length. Collected by Mr Stephen Powers, who describes them as 
. follows: 
Tatsungin, gambling pieces. Ten sticks are stuck into the ground, and two 
men play by throwing on end eight split pieces of reed, painted red on the 
Fig. 205. Fig. 206. 
ic. 205. Cane dice; length, 54 inches; Paiute Indians, southern Utah; cat. no. 9411, Peabody 
Museum of American Archeology and Ethnology. 
Fia. 206. Stick dice; length, 2}inches; Paiute Indians, Pyramid lake, Nevada; cat. no. 37152, Free 
Museum of Science and Art, University of Pennsylvania. 
inside; they count the pieces which fall white side up and there are two pieces 
serving as counters in addition to the pieces stuck in the ground, the latter 
representing the ten fingers. 
Pyramid lake, Nevada. (Cat. no. 37150, Free Museum of 
Science and Art, University of Pennsylvania.) 
Hight slips of split reed, painted red on the convex side; length, 132 
inches. Collected by the writer in 1900. 
The name of these dice, as reported by Dr George A. Dorsey, is 
quoquokotateana. ; 
Cat. no. 37152. Eight small willow sticks (figure 206), rounded on 
one side and flat on the other, the round side plain and the flat 
side stained red; length, 2% inches. Collected by the writer in 
1900 through Miss Marian Taylor. 
Pyramid lake, Nevada. (United States National Museum.) 
Cat. no 19054. Set of twelve sticks of grease wood. one and three- 
fourths inches in length, five-sixteenths of an inch in breadth, 
and one-eighth of an inch in thickness (figure 207) ; both sides 
rounded, the outer painted red and the inner unpainted. 
@ Larrea mexicana. 
