cuLin] DICE GAMES: ASSINIBOIN 173 
black, and four with burnt marks, the reverses plain; length, 23 
inches. Collected by the writer in 1900. 
Doctor Dorsey gives the name as wushanup. 
Fig. 221. Uinta Ute women playing basket dice, Ouray, Utah; from photograph by Dr George 
A. Dorsey. 
SIOUAN STOCK 
Asstnrpo1n. North Dakota. (Cat. no. 8498, United States National 
Museum. ) 
Set of four sticks of polished hickory, 154 inches in length, about 1 
inch in breadth in the center, tapering to three-fourths of an 
inch at ends, and one-eighth of an inch in thickness. Two are 
burnt on one side with war calumets, or tomahawks, and with 
crosses (stars?) at each end, and two each with four bear tracks, 
with stripes of red paint between (figure 222); opposite sides 
plain, ends rounded; one notched and tied with sinew, to prevent 
splitting. Collected by Dr J. P. Kimball. 
Fort Union, Montana. 
In a report to Isaac I. Stevens, governor of Washington territory, 
on the Indian tribes of the upper Missouri, by Mr Edwin T. Denig, 
a manuscript in the library of the Bureau of American Ethnology, 
oceurs the following accounts of the bow] and stick-dice game among 
the Assiniboin: 
Most of the leisure time, either by night or by day, among all these nations is 
