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others have deep square and triangular holes for the insertion of 
slips of ivory or shell, and twelve are engraved with conventional 
animal designs, of which five have holes for the insertion of 
ivory eyes; ends flat. 
Cat. no. 67909b. Set of thirty-nine cylindrical bone sticks, 4,5 
inches in length and four-sixteenths of an inch in diameter, with 
a hole drilled near one end for stringing; all engraved with fine 
encircling lines. One has two deep rectangular holes for the 
insertion of abalone shell, which has been removed. One has a 
row of three dots and three dotted circles. Four are engraved 
with conventional animal designs. 
The two sets were collected by Mr John J. McLean. 
Cumxar. Alaska. (Cat. no. -@% , American Museum of Natural 
History.) 
Sixteen maple gambling sticks, 4,3; inches in length and five-sixteenths 
of an inch in diameter, marked with red and black ribbons, and 
six with burnt totemic designs; ends ovate. With the above are 
ten odd sticks belonging to six or seven different sets. Collected 
by Lieut. George T. Emmons, U. 8. Navy. 
Stixine. Alaska. (Cat. no. ;42,, American Museum of Natural 
History.) 
Set of fifty-three wood gambling sticks, 442 inches in length and five- 
sixteenths of an inch in diameter, in leather pouch; all marked 
with red and black ribbons, and having each end incised with 
three crescent-shaped marks suggesting a human face; in part 
inlaid with small pieces of abalone shell and small rings of copper 
wire; ends flat. Collected by Lieut. George T. Emmons, U. S. 
Navy. 
Taxu. Taku inlet, Alaska. (American Museum of Natural His- 
tory.) 
Cat. no. ;Z,. Set of fifty-seven cylindrical polished maple sticks, 
41° inches in length, in leather pouch; all marked with red and 
black ribbons. 
These were collected by Lieut. George T. Emmons, U. S. Navy, 
who gave the following designations of the sticks: 
Hight are designed as kité, blackfish ; one as tieesh sakh’, starfish; four as kah, 
duck ; ten as late-la-ta, sea gull; four as nork, sunfish; four as shuuko. robin; 
four as heon, fly; three as kar-shish-show, like a dragon fly; three as tseeke, 
black bear; three as gowh, surf duck; four as larkar; three as yah-ah-un-a, 
South Southerlee [sic]; three as ihk-ok-kohm, cross pieces of canoe; two as 
kea-thlu, dragon fly; one as tis, moon. 
Cat. no. re Set of sixty-six cylindrical polished wood sticks, 44% 
inches in length, in leather pouch. Twenty-seven of these sticks 
are marked with red and black ribbons; thirty-eight are plain, of 
