cULIN] DICE GAMES; SHOSHONI 169 
Cat. 
and burnt marks and green paint in center on the reverse; one 
with the groove painted green and burnt marks on the flat side, 
the reverse with burnt marks and green paint; length, 114 inches; 
with eight willow counting sticks, 8 inches in length. 
no. 36862. Two painted yellow on the flat side, the reverse plain; 
one painted red on the flat side with burnt marks and blue paint 
in the middle, the re- 
verse with burnt cross 
lines in the middle; one 
with groove painted red, 
and burnt lines, the re- 
verse burnt with cross 
marks (figure 209) : 
length, 11 inches. 
Fic. 209. Stick dice; length, 11 inches; Shoshoni In- 
dians, Wyoming; cat. no. 36862, Free Museum of 
There are five other sets in Science and Art, University of Pennsylvania. (e, ¢ 
< + a c,d. 
this collection (cat. no. 27° 7everses of 4.) 
36863-86867), all varying slightly from the above. Collected by 
the writer in 1900. The dice are struck ends down on a flat stone. 
SHosuont. Fort Hallagency, Idaho. (Cat. no. 22285, United States 
National Museum.) 
Set of four sticks, 10 inches in length, seven-sixteenths of an inch in 
breadth, and three-sixteenths of an inch in thickness; rectangu- 
lar in section (figure 210), made from grooved box boards, which 
Mr Cushing pointed out to the writer were used as a substitute 
for split canes; burnt on the inner grooved side with four trans- 
verse marks, two near each end. Collected by William H. Dan- 
ilson. 
Fic. 210, Stick dice; length, 10 inches; Shoshoni Indians; Fort Hall agency, Idaho; cat. no. 
22285, United States National Museum. 
Cat. 
Wind River reservation, Wyoming. (Free Museum of Science 
and Art, University of Pennsylvania.) 
no. 36836. Dice, bone, marked with incised lines and painted 
red and green. 
Cat. no. 36837. 
Cat. no. 36838. 
Cat. no. 36839. 
Cat. no. 36840. 
Dice, bone, three round, three rectangular. 
Dice, blue china, three round, three oval. 
Dice, three blue china, three bone. 
Dice, three bone disks, three plum stones. 
