evLty] DICE GAMES: DAKOTA 179 
Daxora (Brut). South Dakota. (Cat. no. 10442, 10448, 16552, 
Free Museum of Science and Art, University of Pennsyl- 
vanila. ) 
Eleven plum-stone dice, apparently belonging to two sets; basket in 
which dice are thrown, made 
of woven grass, 8 inches in On NOM ERORAG ests 
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diameter at top and 24 inches if a8 Ne yy ie if 
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deep, with bottom covered 
with cotton cloth (figure 
231) ; set of thirty-two sticks 
used in counting (figure 
232), consisting of eleven 
rounded white sticks, about pede Pre phe ena oe aaa 
13 inches in length, fourteen Dakota; cat. no. 10443, Free Museum of Science 
similar black sticks, made of “7447+ University of Pennsylvania. 
ribs of an old umbrella, about 12 inches in length, and seven iron 
sticks, about 11 inches in length, consisting of ribs of an umbrella. 
Collected by Mr Horatio N. Rust in 1873. 
Fic. 232. Counting sticks for plum-stone dice; lengths, 13, 12, and 11 inches; Brulé Dakota Indians, 
South Dakota; cat. no. 16552, Free Museum of Science and Art, University of Pennsylvania. 
Daxora (Ocuata). Pine Ridge reservation, South Dakota. (Free 
Museum of Science and Art, University of Pennsylvania.) Im- 
plements for the game of kansu. 
Cat. no. 22119. Set of six dice made of plum stones, polished, with 
incised and burned marks. Two are marked on one face 
with a spider and on the reverse with a longitudinal line 
with three cross marks; two with a lizard, with three transverse 
marks on the reverse, and two with undetermined marks, as 
shown in figure 233, the reverses being plain. 
Cat. no. 22120. Basket, tampa, 84 inches in diameter, having the bot- 
tom covered with a disk of hide (figure 234). 
