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CHIMMESYAN STOCK 
Nisxa. Nass river, British Columbia. 
Dr Franz Boas * describes the game: 
Qsan: Guessing game played with a number of maple sticks marked with red 
or black rings, or totemic designs. Two of these sticks are trumps. Ut is the 
object of the game to guess in which of the two bundles of sticks, which are 
wrapped in cedar-bark, the trump is hidden. Bach player uses one trump only. 
Tsrmsuian. British Columbia. (American Museum of Natural 
History. ) 
Cat. no. 38. Set of sixty-one wood gambling sticks, 5,%; inches in 
length and six-sixteenths of an inch in diameter, in leather 
pouch; three plain, others painted with red and black rib- 
bons; four inlaid with small disks and rectangles of abalone 
shell; ends nipple-shaped and inset with disks of abalone shell. 
Collected by Dr Franz Boas. 
CHINOOKAN STOCK 
Cutnoox. Shoalwater bay, Washington. 
James G. Swan? describes the game of la-hul as follows: 
A mat is first placed on the floor, with the center raised up so as to form a 
small ridge, which is kept in its place by four wooden pins stuck through the 
mmat into the ground. Two persons play at this game, who are seated at each 
end of the mat. Each player has ten disks of wood, 2 inches in diameter, and a 
little over an eighth of an inch thick, resembling the men used in playing back- 
gammon, but much larger. The only distinguishing feature about these men, or 
wheels, is the different manner the edges are colored. There are but two pieces 
of value; one has the edge blackened entirely around, and the other is per- 
fectly plain, while the others have different quantities of color on them, varying 
from the black to the white. These disks are then inclosed in a quantity of the 
inner bark of the cedar, pounded very fine, and called tupsoe. The player, after 
twisting and shuffling them up in all sorts of forms, separates them into two 
equal parts, both being enveloped in the tupsoe. These are then rapidly moved 
about on the mat from side to side, the other player keeping his eyes most 
intently fixed upon them all the time. He has bet either on the black or the 
white one, and now, to win, has to point out which of the two parcels contains 
it. As soon as he makes his selection, which is done by a gesture of his hand, 
the parcel is opened, and each piece is rolled down the mat to the ridge in the 
center. He can thus see the edges of all, and knows whether he has lost or won. 
Alexander Ross ° says: 
When not employed in war or hunting, the men generally spend their time in 
gambling. The chief game, chal-e-chal, at which they stake their most valuable 
property, is played by six persons, with ten circular palettes of polished wood, 
in size and shape resembling dollars. A mat 3 feet broad and 6 feet long is 
spread on the ground, and the articles at stake laid at one end, then the parties 
2 Fifth Report on the Indians of British Columbia. Report ofthe Sixty-fifth Meeting 
of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, p. 582, London, 1895. 
>The Northwest Coast, p. 157, New York, 1857. 
¢ Adventures of the First Settlers on the Oregon or Columbia River, p. 90, London, 1849. 
