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which some show old bands, obliterated but not removed, while 
two are inlaid with a small rectangular piece of black horn (plate 
tv, /), and one with a small ring of copper wire. 
These also were collected by Lieutenant Emmons, who gave the 
following description of the twenty-seven marked sticks: 
Three are designated as tuk-kut-ke-yar, humming bird (plate rv, @) ; three as 
kark, golden-eye duck (plate ry, b); three as dulth, a bird like a heron without 
topknot (plate tv, c); three as kau-kon, sun (plate Iv, d) ; four as kite, black- 
fish (plate rv, e) ; three as sarish, four-pronged starfish (plate Iv, f) ; three as 
kok-khatete, loon (plate Iv, g); three as ars, stick, tree (plate Iv, i); two as 
ta-thar-ta, sea gull (plate Iv, j). 
Turverr. Alaska. (American Museum of Natural History.) 
Cat. no. ;£;. Set of forty-three gambling sticks, 5,4; inches in length 
and five-sixteenths of an inch in diameter, in leather pouch; one 
plain, others marked with red and black ribbon; ends nipple- 
shaped. Fort Wrangell. . 
Cat. no. =85. Set of forty-six wooden gambling sticks, 5,4; inches in 
length and five-sixteenths of an inch in diameter, in leather 
pouch; all marked with red and black ribbons. Fort Wrangell. 
Cat. no. goq- Set of sixty-two polished maple gambling sticks, 444) 
inches in length and one-fourth of an inch in diameter, in leather 
pouch; painted with red and black ribbons, in part inlaid with 
abalone shell; one carved with head of a man; ends ovate. 
Sitka. 
Cat. no. ;£s. Set of sixty-seven maple gambling sticks, 4,4; inches 
in length and five-sixteenths of an inch in diameter, in leather 
pouch; all marked with red and black ribbons; ends ovate. 
Sitka. 
Cat. no. ;£;. Set of forty-three wood gambling sticks, 444 inches in 
length and four-sixteenths of an inch in diameter, in leather 
pouch; twenty-two painted with red and black ribbons, others 
plain, ends having small raised flat disk. 
Cat. no. s£;. Set of forty-nine wood gambling sticks, 3,4; inches in 
length and five-sixteenths of an inch in diameter, in leather 
pouch; all painted with red and black ribbons; ten inlaid with 
small pieces of abalone shell, copper, and horn; ends flat. Fort 
Wrangell. 
All of the above specimens were collected by Lieut. George T. Em- 
mons, U.S. Navy. The name is given as alhkar. 
In a reply to an inquiry addressed by the writer, Lieutenant Em-~ 
mons wrote as follows: 
All of the sets of sticks catalogued in my collection in New York were pro- 
cured among the Tlingit people, who inhabit the coast of southeastern Alaska 
from Nass river northward to the delta of Copper river, together with the 
adjacent islands of the Alexander archipelago, exclusive of Annette and the 
