cUuLIN] STICK GAMES: HUPA 233 
Another set of implements for the same game in this collection 
(cat. no. 32%) consists of fifty-one sticks (figure 315), 9} inches in 
length, and a finder, a forked twig 18 inches in length. Another 
name for the game is ateso’kaganani, from ateso “kiiwa, he tells a 
story—that is, a myth. 
Fic.315. Stick game: sticks and finder; length of sticks, 9} inches; length of finder, 18 inches; 
Sauk and Fox Indians, Iowa; cat. no. 33$,, American Museum of Natural History. 
ATHAPASCAN STOCK 
Araakut. Hupa Valley reservation, California. (Cat. no. 126905, 
United States National Museum.) 
Set of thirty-one sticks, 8% inches in length and tapering to the ends, 
one having a band of black paint near the middle (figure 316). 
These were collected by Lieut. P. H. Ray, U. S. Army, who de- 
seribes the game under the designation of kinnahelah: 
This game is played by any number that wish to engage in betting. Two deal- 
ers sit opposite each other on a blanket, each backed by two or more singers and 
a drummer, and the game commences by one of the dealers taking the sticks in 
both hands, about equally divided, and holding them behind his back, shuf- 
fling them from hand to hand, after which he brings them in front of his body 
with both hands extended and the sticks grasped so the players can not 
Fra. 316. Stick game; length of sticks, 8} inches; Ataakut Indians, Hupa Valley reservation, 
California; cat. no. 126905, United States National Museum. 
see the centers. The opposite dealer clasps his hands together two or three 
times and points towards the hand which he thinks holds the stick with the 
black center. Should he guess correctly, he takes the deal and holds it until 
his opponent wins it back in like manner. For each failure a forfeit is paid, 
and one is also demanded when the dealer loses the deal. Friends of each party 
make outside bets on the dealers, and each dealer’s band plays and sings as long 
as he holds the deal.¢ 
Hours. Hupa Valley reservation, California. (Free Museum of Sci- 
ence and Art, University of Pennsylvania.) 
«See Prof. Otis T. Mason, The Ray Collection from Hupa Reservation. Report of the 
Smithsonian Institution for 1886, pt. 1, p. 234, 1889. 
