248 GAMES OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS  [nru. ann. 24 
red alternating with two black (burned) bands in the middle, and 
on two the band in the middle is white. 
These were collected by Mr T. Jay Bufort, who furnished the 
following account of the game. under the name of tuckinaw. 
This game is played on the principle of the bone hand game. The sticks are 
divided and a wisp of grass is wrapped around each of the bundles, which are 
laid out in front of the player for the opposite side to guess; in this game the 
party loses if he guesses the white stick. 
Fic. 331. Stick game; length of sticks, 6} inches; Klamath Indians, Siletz reservation, Oregon; 
eat. no, 63607, Field Columbian Museum. 
MOQUELUMNAN STOCK 
OLAMENTKE and Costanoan. San Francisco mission, California. 
Otto von Kotzebue,t who gives a list of the tribes at this mission, 
comprising Guimen, Olumpali, Saklan, Sonomi, and Utchium, says: 
This being a holiday, the Indians did no work, but, divided into groups, 
amused themselves with various pastimes, one of which requires particular 
dexterity. Two sit on the ground opposite each other, holding in their hands 
a number of thin sticks, and these being thrown up at the same time with great 
rapidity they immediately guess whether the number is odd or even; at the 
side of each of the players a person sits, who scores the gain and loss. As 
they always play for something and yet possess nothing but their clothing, 
which they are not allowed to stake, they employ much pains and skill on little 
white shells, which serve instead of money. 
Again, he says: ? 
The game is played between two antagonists, at odd or even, with short sticks ; 
an umpire keeps the account with other sticks. 
PUJUNAN STOCK 
Oxovopa. California. 
A. Delano © says: 
They are most inveterate gamblers, and frequently play away every article 
of value they possess, but beads are their staple gambling currency. They 
have two or three games, one of which is with small sticks, held in the hand, 
which being suddenly opened, some roll on the fingers, when the opposite player 
guesses at a glance their number. If he guesses right, he wins; if wrong, pays 
the forfeit. 
«A Voyage of Discovery (1815-18), v. 1, p. 281, London, 1821. 
> Ibid, v. 3, p. 44. 
¢ Life on the Plains, p. 307, Auburn, 1854. 
