cuLin] DICE GAMES; SABOBA ili 
Cat. no. 36849. Dice, three bone disks, three bone diamonds. 
Cat. no. 36850. Nine dice of five sets. 
All these specimens were collected by the writer in 1900. There 
are six dice of two different kinds in each set. As will be seen from 
the above, three may be made of china or bone and three of plum 
FiG. 217. Counting sticks for dice; lengths, 5 and 13} inches; Shoshoni Indians, Wyoming; cat. 
no. 36868, Free Museum of Science and Art, University of Pennsylvania. 
stones, or three may be round and three diamond-shaped or triangular. 
The reverses are all plain. Great ingenuity is displayed in the manu- 
facture of these dice, which are made by the women. They are called 
awunhut. The dice are carried in small buckskin bags ornamented 
with beadwork, awunhut mogutz. Cat. no. 36852, rectangular, 4 by 
3} inches; cat. no. 36853, 36854, circular; cat. no. 36855. circular, 
diameter, 3 inches (figure 215). 
The dice are tossed in a flat woven basket, of which there are three 
specimens in this collection: Cat. no. 36856, diameter, 15 inches; cat. 
no. 36857, diameter. 11 inches: cat. no. 36858, diameter, 125 inches 
(figure 216). 
These baskets are called seheouwu. The game is counted with ten 
counting sticks of peeled willow. Cat. no. 36868 consists of ten such 
sticks, four of which are 13% and six 5 inches in length (figure 217). 
Sapopa. California. (Cat. no. 61940, Field Columbian Museum.) 
Set of four wooden staves, 15 
inches in length, rounded 
on one side and flat and 
marked with incised lines, 
as shown in figure 218, on 
the other. 
They were collected by Mr 
Edwin Minor, who describes the 
game as follows: Fig. 218. Stick dice; length, 15 inches; Saboba 
4 i as Indians, California; cat. no. 61940, Field Co- 
Kun-we'la is played by any number — jumbian Museum. 
of women seated on the ground in a 
circle. The players in turn hold the sticks, round side up, with the palms 
pressing against the ends of the sticks, which are tossed up and allowed to fall 
on the ground. The count is determined by the number of faces, or flat sides, 
that turn up. The marks on the sticks are not used in the counting; they 
merely distinguish them individually. 
