CULIN] DICE GAMES: HAIDA 189 
Ponca, who sent five plum stones to a young woman whom he secured 
by magical arts, afterward telling her: “ Keep the plum stones for 
gambling. You shall always win.” 
Winnepaco. Black River Falls, Wisconsin. (Cat. no. 22157, Free 
Museum of Science and 
Art, University of Penn- 
sylvania. ) 
Wooden bowl, highly polished with 
use, 94 inches in diameter, 
and eight bone disks, five- 
eighths of an inch in diameter, 
one side smooth and white, 
the other stained dark blue Fic. 247. Bone dice; diameter, ¢ inch; Win- 
(figure 247). Collected by nebago Indians, Wisconsin; cat. no. 22157, 
A 2 7 Free Museum of Science and Art, Uniyer- 
Mr T. R. Roddy Fe sity of Pennsylvania. 
Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin. 
Caleb Atwater“ says: 
The women play a game among themselves, using pieces of bone about the 
size and which have the appearance of a common button mold. They are so cut 
out that one side is blackish and the other white. A considerable number of 
these button molds are placed in a small wooden bowl and thrown up in it a 
certain number of times, when the white sides up are counted. 
SKITTAGETAN STOCK 
Hawa. Skidegate, Queen Charlotte islands, British Columbia. 
Dr C. F. Newcombe states that this tribe have the chair-shaped dice 
figured among the Kwakiutl and Tlingit and gives the following 
account of the game, obtained in 1901, under the name of gadegan : 
Ten counters of slips of wood or of long bones of 
birds are placed between two players. The first 
35 iS throw in the game is won by the player who scores 
5 2 the highest in the preliminary throwing, which con- 
tinues until the advantage is gained in the alter- 
nate play. 
tie Scoring.—The following are the winning positions 
[figure 248]: Supine (1), scores 1; prone (2), with 
3 4 
the back and under surface uppermost; erect (3), 
Fia. 248. Positions of die in Or natural position of a chair, 2; resting on the 
winning throws; Haida In-_ front edge (4), back uppermost, 4. 
ae Leak ae aa Losing positions.—If the die falls and remains on 
Newconibe: either side. The player continues to throw until the 
die falls on its side. Until the pot is exhausted win- 
ners draw counters from it, and afterward from their opponent’s pile. The 
game goes on until one player has won all the counters. Men and women play 
indifferently. 
@Remarks Made on a Tour to Prairie du Chien, p. 117, Columbus, 1831. 
