cCULIN] STICK GAMES: MAKAH 963 
susceptible of various combinations, which must have escaped an observer who 
does not understand the language spoken by the players. I judge so from an 
assortment of these small sticks which Captain Chanal procured and brought to 
France. On examining them are seen traced on some, toward the middle of 
their length, three black parallel circles; on others, the three circles, brought 
close to each other, occupy one of the extremities. Other sticks bear two, four, 
five, six, or seven black circles, distributed lengthwise, at unequal distances, and 
it may be conceived that these varieties, in the number and disposition of the cir- 
cles which distinguish one stick from the others, may produce several in the com- 
binations. Be this as it may, the time and attention which the natives of Cloak 
Bay give to this game prove that it has for them a great attraction, and that it 
warmly excites their interest. 
WAKASHAN STOCK 
Betiasetia. British Columbia. (American Museum of Natural 
History.) 
Cat. no. J. Set of seventy-two wood gambling sticks, 5,4; inches 
in length and six-sixteenths of an inch in diameter, in leather 
pouch, all marked with red and black ribbons and burnt totemic 
designs; the ends hollowed; paint stick in pouch. 
Cat. no. 5. Set of fifty-four light-colored wood gambling sticks 
about 442 inches in length and five-sixteenths of an inch in 
diameter, lengths slightly irregular, in leather pouch, all marked 
with red and black ribbons, the ends flat; double-pointed paint 
sticks, one end red, the other black, in pouch. 
Both sets were collected by Dr J. W. Powell. 
Kwaniutnt. Nawiti, British Columbia. 
Dr C. F. Newcombe describes the stick game (called by the Haida 
sin) of these Indians under the name of libaiu: 
The sticks are mostly made of crab apple, yew, vine, maple, and birch. Some 
were inlaid with abalone shell. They are in sets of two, three, or four alike, 
but mostly of two. The same sets of names occur in every village. They were 
not of families, tribes, or crests, nor of animals or birds. The only name 
secured was of one having two diagonal bands, which they call k’élpstale, twisted 
stalk. There was only one way of playing, and the game was played on small 
eating mats raised in the middle and sloping toward each of the two players. 
— British Columbia. (Cat. no. 19017, Field Columbian Mu- 
seum. ) 
Set of sixty-five polished wood sticks, 42 inches in length: variously 
colored, ends rounded. Collected by Mr George Hunt. 
Makan. Neah bay, Washington. (Free Museum of Science and 
Art, University of Pennsylvania. ) 
Cat. no. 37380. Ten plain wooden disks (figure 3402), 2 inches in 
diameter, one face painted with from eight to ten dots near the 
edge, the other with a painted ring near the edge. Two have all 
black edges and one all white. 
