264 GAMES OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS | [eru. ann. 24 
Cat. no. 37381. Ten plain disks with hole in center (figure 3400) ; 
diameter, 1 inches. Three have all black edges and one has all 
white edges. 
Cat. no. 37381. Ten disks with raised rim and nicks around the 
inner edge (figure 340c); diameter, 1$ inches. Two have all 
black edges and one all white. 
Cat. no. 37382. Ten plain disks (figure 340d), 24 inches in diameter. 
One has all black edges and two have all white. Accompanied 
by a mass of shredded cedar bark in which the disks are manipu- 
lated. 
Collected by the writer in 1900. 
Dr George A. Dorsey “ thus describes the game: 
Sacts-sa-whaik, rolls far. This is the most common and perhaps the best- 
known game played by the Indians of Washington. It is played with ten disks 
(huliak), while the count is kept with twelve 
sticks (katsake). Four sets of this game 
were collected, two of them being made of 
elder, the other two of maple. None of the 
sets have any special markings to distinguish 
them from the ordinary sets of this region, 
except that in one set one side of the disk has 
eight small dots near the edge and a black 
band near the edge on the other side. In all 
of the sets seven of the disks have perimeters 
half white and half black. In three sets two 
Fic: 340 a, b, c,d. Gaming disks; di- of the remaining disks have a perimeter en- 
ameters, 2, 1}, 12, and 2} inches; Ma-_ tirely white, while that of the tenth disk is 
kah Indians, Neah bay, Washington; entirely black. In the fourth set the peri- 
cat. nos. 37380 to 37382, Free Museum meter of two of the disks is entirely black, 
of Science and Art, University of 2 = K i E " : 
Pennsyiaanin ° while that of the third disk is entirely white. 
In the three sets, where there is a single disk 
with an edge entirely black, it is known as chokope, or man, the disks with 
white borders being known as hayop, or female. In the fourth set, according 
to this nomenclature, there would be one female and two men. I was informed 
by Williams that the object of the game is to guess the location of the female, 
and, as the nomenclature was given him by me, I am at a loss to reconcile the 
fact that in the three sets collected there were two females in each set. It is 
probable that in sets of this sort the black-edged disk may be designated as the 
female, as without question it is the single disk, distinguished from all others 
in the set, which is the one sought for in every instance. . . . This game 
is played only by men. 
Charlhe Williams informed the writer that the Makah play this 
game to the accompaniment of singing and drumming. 
J. G. Swan,’ under Gambling Implements, says: 
Of these, one form consists of disks made from the wood of a hazel which 
grows at Cape Flattery and vicinity. The shrub is from 10 to 15 feet high, 
and with limbs from 2 to 3 inches in diameter, The name in Makah is hul- 
“Games of the Makah Indians of Neah Bay. The American Antiquarian, y. 23, p. 71, 
1901. 5 
>The Indians of Cape Flattery. Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge, no. 220, 
p. 44, 1870, 
