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have a band of black paint at both ends and in the middle, while 
the eighth is painted only in the middle. 
These were collected by Lieut. P. H. Ray, U. S. Army, who de- 
seribes them under the name of kinnahelah: 
The game is essentially the same [as that from the Ataakut] except in the 
use of a smaller number of sticks and the joker 
being blackened only in the center, while the balance 
are blackened at both ends and center. Both games 
are called kin. 
Mikonorunne and MisHikHWUTMETUNNE. 
Siletz reservation, Oregon. A. W. Chase* 
says: 
‘aptain Tichenor played several native games of 
cards for us, the “pasteboards” being bundles of 
sticks. 
Fig. 321. Stick game; length 
of sticks, 44 inches; Hupa Gyreany, Sicanie river, British Columbia. 
Indians, Hupa Valley reser- 
vation, California; cat. no. (Cat. no. 688, Peabody Museum of 
Heched, Willige! Maes Ia. American Archeology and Ethnol- 
tional Museum. LoD 
ogy.) 
Ten sticks of light wood, 4% inches in length and one-fourth 
of an inch in diameter, marked alike with red lines or rib- 
bons (figure 322); collected by J. T. Rothrock, and acquired 
by the Museum in 1867 with other Ath- 
apascan objects. 
The use of these sticks is explained 
clearly by the following reference by Father 
Morice to the game of atlih. There is an- 
other set of gambling sticks in the Peabody 
Museum, cat. no. 48395, about which noth- 
ing is known, but which from their re- 
semblance to the preceding are probably 
from the same or some adjacent tribe. c= 
They number fifty-one, are marked in four Fie. 32. 
4 x re ey A es ee ; sticks, 4} inches; Sekani Indi- 
different ways with faint black and red 27 O° piiish Columbia: cat. 
lines, and are contained in a flat leather no. 688, Peabody Museum of 
¢ A ey seh : American Archeology and 
pouch, open at the top, the sticks standing mthnalre: 
on end. 
Taxkuuur. Upper Fraser river, British Columbia. 
Sir Alexander Mackenzie ” says: 
We all sat down on a very pleasant green spot, and were no sooner seated 
than our guide and one of the party prepared to engage in play. They had eack 
a bundle of about fifty small sticks, neatly polished, of the size of a quill, and 5 
inches long; a certain number of these sticks had red lines around them, and 
«The Overland Monthly, v. 2, p. 488, San Francisco, 1869. 
> Voyages from Montreal, p. 311, London, 1801. 
