196 GAMES OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS _ [©TH. ann. 24 
WAKASHAN STOCK 
Crayoquor. West coast of Vancouver island, British Columbia. 
(Cat. no. 54$;, American Museum of Natural History.) 
Set of four beaver-teeth dice, two with dots and two with crossed lines 
Fa. 258. Beaver-teeth dice; 
length, 2 to2} inches; Clayo- 
quot Indians, Vancouver 
island, British Columbia; 
cat. no. 4}$;, American Mu- 
seum of Natural History. 
(figure 258). Collected by Mr F. Jacob- 
sen in 1897. 
One pair with circular designs are called the women 
and the other pair with straight lines the men, The 
one man with the more elaborate designs is trump. 
Ten counters are placed between the players, one of 
whom tosses the dice; when two men or two women 
fall face up he wins one counter; when the trump 
falls face up and all the others face down, or vice 
versa, he wins t(vo counters. The game is won by the 
player who gets all the counters. 
Dr C. F. Newcombe writes: 
In this game the Clayoquot mark two of the teeth 
with circular dots, 0 0 0, and two with incised cross 
lines, x xX xX or ###., 
One of the dotted teeth is also marked by a circular 
black band, and this is called the man, and the other 
the woman. 
Of the incised teeth, the one with more definite or 
stronger marks is the man, and the other the woman. 
The game is called a. isyek. No specimens were seen, but the information 
was obtained from “Annie,” the daughter of Atliu, a well-known chief of the 
tribe. 
Kwaxiutnt. Dsawadi, Knight’s inlet, British Columbia. 
Dr C. F. Newcombe describes the beaver-tooth dice game at this 
place under the name of midale. They say it came from the Stick 
Indians (Tahlkan). It is now obsolete. It was a woman’s gambling 
game. 
Dr 
die; Kwakiutl 
Vancouver island, 
Franz Boas® de- 
scribes these Indians as 
Fic. 259. Wooden sing wooden dice (figure 
When all four come 
up alike they count 2. 
British Columbia. 
Fig. 260. Beaver-teeth dice; length, 
Indians, British 259) in a game called ei- 2 to 2 inches; Makah Indians, 
Columbia; from cc Rha Neah bay, Washington; cat. no. 
Boas. bayu. The asts count 23351, United States National Mu- 
according to the narrow- — seum. 
ness of the sides.” 
The dice collected by him were in the World’s 
Columbian Exposition. 
@ Sixth Report on the Indians of British Columbia. Report of the Sixty-sixth Meeting 
of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, p. 578, London, 1896. 
