cury] DICE GAMES: COCOPA 199 
Set of four flat curved pieces of bone, 2 inches in length, imitations 
in form of beaver teeth; two marked on one side with spots and 
two with chevrons (figure 264), the opposite sides plain. Col- 
lected by Mr Samuel Jacobsen. 
It is described by the collector under the name of todjik as a 
woman’s game. The counts are as follows: Four marked sides up 
count 2; four blank sides up, 2; two hole sides and 2 blank up, 1; 
one hole side and three blank up, 0; two line sides and two blank 
up, 2; two line sides, one blank, and one hole side up, 4+. The game 
is played on blankets, the count being kept with small sticks. 
Another set of four flat curved bone dice (figure 265), 13 inches 
in length, similar to the preceding, but with pointed ends, is included 
under the same number. 
WASHOAN STOCK 
Wasno. Carson valley and Lake Tahoe, Nevada. 
Dr J. W. Hudson describes the following game played by women: 
Twelve small sticks, 4 inches long by three-eighths of an inch wide, of split 
willow (Salix agrifolia), bent, and painted red on the flat side, are cast up and 
eaught in a winnowing basket. The counts are as follows: All red up count 
6; two red up, 1; one red up, 2; all plain up, 6. 
The sticks are called itpawkaw, the game, pokowa, and the pebble counters, 
dtek, “ stones.” 
WEITSPEKAN STOCK 
Yurox. Hupa Valley reservation, California. 
Dr Pliny E. Goddard gave me the Yurok name of the shell dice 
used by the Hupa Indians as tekgorpos. 
WISHOSKAN STOCK 
Batawat. Blue Lake, California. 
An Indian of this tribe who was interrogated by the writer at 
Blue Lake in 1900 recognized the shell dice (figure 91) which he had 
collected in Hupa valley and gave the name as goplauwat; large 
dice, docted; small dice, koshshop; concave sides, tsusarik; convex 
sides, bokshowarish. \ 
YUMAN STOCK 
Cocopa. Sonora, Mexico. (Cat. no. 76165, United States National 
Museum.) 
Set of four sticks of willow * wood, 8 inches long, about 14 inches 
broad, and one-half inch thick (figure 266). Flat on one 
° Salix amygdaloides. 
