CULIN] STICK GAMES: HUPA 285 
Hupa. Hupa Valley reservation, California. (United States Na- 
tional Museum. ) 
Cat. no. 151673. Set of ninety-eight slender pointed sticks, 8§ inches 
in length, two marked with a band of black near the middle; 
collected by Lieut. Robert H. Fletcher, U. S. Army. 
Cat. no. 21314. Set of sixty-two slender pointed sticks, 9? inches in 
length, three marked with black band near the middle. 
Jat. no. 21316. Set of fifty-one slender sticks (figure 319), 92 inches 
in length, thicker than the preceding and not pointed; three 
marked with a black band near the middle. * 
Fig. 319. Stick game; length of sticks, 9{ inches; Hupa Indians, California; cat. no. 21316, 
United States National Museum. 
Cat. no. 21315. Ninety-three slender pointed sticks, 8{ inches in 
length, and two about 8} inches in length, possibly parts of two 
or more sets; four marked with band of black near the middle, 
one carved near the middle, and one carved near the end, as shown 
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in figure 320. 
Fia. 320. Stick game; length of sticks, 8f inches; Hupa Indians, California; cat. no. 21315, 
United States National Museum. 
The foregoing specimens from cat. no. 21314 were collected by 
Mr Stephen Powers, who describes the game as follows: 
Kin, one hundred gambling sticks, four of them marked black around the 
middle. The player holds up two, and his adversary guesses in which hand is 
the marked one. If he is unsuccessful with this one, he takes another one of 
the marked ones; if unsuccessful with all of the marked ones in the bunch, he 
tries another bunch, or scarifies the outside of his legs, cutting them with shal- 
low cross lines. A company, sometimes a hundred people, surround the players, 
and a drum is beaten with a stick, to which is attached a rattle of deer hoofs, 
while chanting is kept up. 
Hupa Valley reservation, California. (Cat. no. 126906, 
United States National Museum.) 
Set of eight cylinders of wood (figure 321), 42 inches in length and 
five-sixteenths of an inch in diameter, made of twigs. Seven 
