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Both players are seated. The other makes his choice, and then each one exam- 
ines what he has. He who has the odd stick wins the game. 
Omaua. Nebraska. 
Rey. J. Owen Dorsey * gives the following description of the stick- 
counting game among the Omaha: 
Ja®-¢awa, stick counting, is played by any number of persons with sticks made 
of déska or sidthi. These sticks are all placed in a heap, and then the players 
in succession take up some of them in their hands. The sticks are not counted 
till they have been taken up, and then be who has the lowest odd number always 
wins. Thus if one player had 5, another 3, and a third only 1, the last must be 
the victor. The highest number that anyone can have is 9. If 10 or more sticks 
have been taken, those above 9 do not count. With the exception of horses, 
anything may be staked which is played for in banange-kide. 
SKITTAGETAN STOCK 
Hama. Skidegate, Queen Charlotte islands, British Columbia. 
(Cat. no. 37808, Free Museum of Science and Art, Uni- 
versity of Pennsylvania. ) 
Set of forty-eight sticks, 4) inches in length and three-eighths of an 
inch in diameter, marked with bands of black and red paint. 
Collected in 1900 by Dr C. F. Newcombe, who describes them under 
the name of sin, or hsin: 
The following is a list of the names of the sticks and the number of each: 
Shadow, hiké haut, 3; red fish, skeitkadagun, 3; black bass, x4si,3; mirror (of 
slate, wetted), xaus gungs, 3; sea anemone, xtings kedans, 3; dance headdress, 
djilkiss, 3; puffin, koxand, 3; black bear, tin, 3; devil fish, nd kwun, 3; guille- 
mot, skadéa. 3; large housefly, didin, 3; halibut, xagu, 3; humpback salmon, 
tsitin, 3: dog salmon, ska’gi, 3; centipede, gotamega, 1; chiefs who kiss, i. e., 
rub noses, skunagésilai, 1; supernatural beings of high rank, dsil or djil, 4. The 
last are trumps. 
———— Queen Charlotte islands, British Columbia. (American Mu- 
seum of Natural History.) 
Cat. no.;'.';. Set of sixty maple gambling sticks, 5‘; inches in length 
and seven-sixteenths of an inch in diameter, in leather pouch; 
all marked with red and black ribbons. 
Cat. no. ats. Set of eighty-eight wood gambling sticks, 5 inches in 
length and five-sixteenths of an inch in diameter, in leather 
pouch; all painted with red and black ribbons; two sticks carved 
at one end with human heads, one having right arm and leg of 
human figure below and the other their complement; ends flat; 
a single-pointed paint stick in the pouch. 
Both sets were collected by Dr J. W. Powell. 
@ Omaha Sociology. Third Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, p. 338, 1884. 
