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CULIN] STICK GAMES: ACHOMAWI 25M 
neither party having won the game. Very seldom do they play for mere fun. 
There is generally a small stake, and sometimes from one hundred to two hun- 
dred dollars is bet. 
The Indians say that they now stake less money and spend less time in gaming 
than formerly. It is said that in former years as much as a thousand dollars 
was sometimes staked and that the players became so infatuated as to bet 
everything they had, even to the clothes on their backs. At present they sel- 
dom gamble except on rainy days or when they have little else to do. There 
is no drinking in connection with it. Outside parties sometimes bet on the 
game as white people do. There is a tradition that when Dokibatt “came, a 
long time ago, he told them to give up all their bad habits and things, these 
among others; that he took the disks and threw them into the water, but that 
they came back. He then threw them into the fire, but they came out. He 
threw them away as far as he could, but they returned; and so he threw them 
away five times, and every time they came back; after which he told the people 
that they might use them for fun or sport.” 
SHAHAPTIAN STOCK 
Kurirar. Washington. (Cat. no. 51845, Peabody Museum of 
American Archeology and Ethnology.) 
Set of ten wooden disks, 2 inches in diameter, with raised rims and 
incised marks around the inner edge. Two have plain white 
edges, six, edges partly plain and partly burned black, and two 
burned around entire cireumference;* accompanied by four 
wrought copper pins (figure 337), 11 inches in length, said to 
be used in holding down the mat on which the game is played. 
Presented by Mr A. W. Robinson. 
Fic. 337. Copper pins used in holding down gambling mat in disk game; length, 11 inches; 
Klikitat Indians, Washington; cat. no. 51845, Peabody Museum of American Archzeology and 
Ethnology. 
SHASTAN STOCK 
AcHOMAWI. Hat Creek, California. (Cat. no. ¢?$5, American Mu- 
seum of Natural History.) 
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Fig. 388. Stick game; length of sticks, $} inches; Achomawi Indians, Hat Creek, California; cat. 
no. 733, American Museum of Natural History. 
Nineteen slender sticks (figure 338), about 84 inches in length. 
Collected in 1903 by Dr Roland B. Dixon, who gave the name a: 
teupauwlya,. 
“As usual, the disks are marked with small punctures. The arrangement is as fol- 
lows: Two with three marks on each side; three with three marks on one side, two on 
reverse; two with two marks on each side; three without marks. 
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