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be seen outside their lodges, spending the whole day at it, instead of attending 
to their household affairs. Some men prohibit their wives from gambling, but 
these take the advantage of their husbands’ absence to play. Most of the 
women will gamble off everything they possess, even to the dresses of their 
children, and the passion appears to be as deeply rooted in them as in the men. 
They frequently are thrashed by their husbands for their losses and occasionally 
have quarrels among themselves as to the results of the game. 
Maximilian, Prince of Wied,? says: 
Another [game] is that in which they play with four small bones and four 
yellow nails, to which one of each sort is added; they are laid upon a flat 
wooden plate, which is struck, so that they fly up and fall back into the plate, 
and you gain or lose according as they lie together 
on one side, and the stake is often very high. 
Asstnizporx. Fort Belknap reservation. 
Montana. (Cat. no. 60161, Field 
Columbian Museum.) 
Set of dice consisting of five claws, one a 
lion claw larger than the others, five 
heads of brass tacks, one rectangular 
piece of copper, and four plum stones 
having one side burnt and one plain 
(figure 226). @ @ @) é 
These were collected in 1900 by Dr 
George A. Dorsey, who describes them as 
used in the game of kansu and gives the @GoO® 2) 
names and value of the objects as follows: Fic. 226. Claw, plum-stone, and 
brass dice; Assiniboin Indians, 
Large crow claw, washage, on end counts 28; Montana; cat. no. 60161, Field 
red side up, 5; small claws on end, 12; red side Columbian Museum. 
up. 4; plum stones, kan-h, black (saap) side up, 
4; plain, ska, side up, 0; brass tacks, masiek, concave side up, 4: convex side 
up, 0; copper plate, hungotunk, big mother, bright side up, 18: other side, 0. 
As in other dice games, these objects are tossed in a wooden bowl, the score 
being kept by counting sticks and 100 constituting game. 
Crows. Wyoming. 
Dr F. V. Hayden” in his vocabulary gives manopede, a favorite 
game with women, in which plum pits are used; manuhpe, plum 
(Prunus virginiana) reveals the etymology; badeahpedik, to gamble, 
evidently referring to the dish, bate; also® maneshope, a game with 
sticks, played by the women. 
Crow reservation, Montana. (Field Columbian Museum.) 
Cat. no. 69691. Four stick dice (figure 227), flat slips of sapling, 
114 inches in Jength and one-half of an inch wide, with rounded 
sides plain, and flat sides painted red; two having burnt marks 
* Travels in the Interior of North America, translated by H. Evans Lloyd, p. 196, Lon- 
don, 1843. 
Contributions to the Ethnography and Philology of the Indian Tribes of the Missouri 
Valley, p. 408, Philadelphia, 1862. 
¢Tbid., p. 420. 
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