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Cat. no. 37201. Set of one hundred and six fine wooden splints, 
eight marked in the center with black: length, 84 inches; tied 
with a thong. 
It was explained by the maker of these sticks that it was customary to put four 
sticks, aces. marked with black, in a pack, although but one is actually used in 
guessing. The count is kept with 11 twigs. Two people play. The starter takes 
5 and the other player 6, and the game continues until one or the other has the 11 
twigs. The name of the game is kin, meaning stick. This and the similar sets 
following are called ho-tehi-kin, ho-tchi being explained as meaning correct. 
Cat. no. 37202. Set of sticks for kin, hotchikin. Fifty-three coarse 
splints, one marked with black; length, 10 inches. 
37206, Free Museum of Science and Art, University of Pennsylvania. 
Cat. no. 37203. Set of one hundred and ninety-three fine splints, 
four marked with black; length, 82 inches. 
Cat. no. 37204. Set of forty-three fine splints, three marked with 
black; length, 9 inches. 
Cat. no. 37205. Set of one hundred and thirty-nine fine splints, 
five marked with black; length, 9% inches. Twenty-four splints 
have spiral ribbons of red the entire length, said to have been 
added to make the sticks more salable for the white trade. 
Cat. no. 37206 (figure 317). Set of eleven counting sticks for kin, 
called chittistil; half sections, with bark having three spiral 
lines cut across; length, 7 inches. 
A Crescent City Indian whom the writer met at Arcata, Cali- 
fornia, gave the names of the sticks used in kif as tchacti, and the 
trump as tchacwun. 
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= Sr eres | 
—SaSSSS SSS SS 
SSS a 
— = —— ee es Taree es] 
SSS —S——_——S—_—_—_ OS SS as annaaccces| 
———SSS 5 
= =~ z - Eee 
c ee ——— 
Fig. 318. Stick game; length of sticks, 4; inches; Hupa Indians, California; cat. no. 37208, Free 
Museum of Science and Art, University of Pennsylvania. 
Cat. no. 37208. Set of game sticks, missolich (figure 318). Fifteen 
small sticks of hard polished wood, 42 inches in length. 
Seven of these have three bands around and three rows of dots or 
points at each end; seven have only three bands and one, two bands. 
The last is regarded as the ace, or stick which is guessed, hauk. 
All collected by the writer in 1900. 
