CULIN] STICK GAMES: YUROK ' 265 
li-A-ko-bupt, the disks hul-liak, and the game la-hul-lum. The game is common 
among all the Indians of this territory, and is called in the jargon la-hull. 
The disks are circular, like checkers, about 2 inches in diameter, and the fourth 
of an inch thick, and are usually smoothed off and polished with care. They 
are first cut off transversely from the end of a stick which has been selected 
and properly prepared, then smoothed and polished, and marked on the outer 
edge with the color that designates their value. They are used in sets of ten, 
one of which is entirely black on the outer edge, another entirely white, and the 
rest of all degrees from black to white. Two persons play at the game, each 
having a mat before him, with the end next his opponent slightly raised so 
that the disks can not roll out of reach. Each player has ten disks which he 
covers with a quantity of the finely beaten bark and then separates the heap 
into two equal parts, shifting them rapidly on the mat from hand to hand. The 
opposing player guesses which heap contains the white or black, and on making 
his selection the disks are rolled down the mat, when each piece is separately 
seen. If he has guessed right, he wins; if not, he loses. 
Fig. 341. Stick game; length of splints, 9) inches; Yurok Indians, California: cat. no. 37257, Free 
Museum of Science and Art, University of Pennsylvania 
WASHOAN STOCK 
Wasno. Carson valley and Lake Tahoe, Nevada. 
Dr J. W. Hudson describes the following game under the name of 
dtsudtsu : 
A winnowing basket is inverted and held with the left hand while nine small 
sticks, 24 inches long, are held in the right and a number of them hidden under 
it. The opponent guesses whether an odd or even number was hidden. This 
is a man’s game. 
WEITSPEKAN STOCK 
Yourox. Klamath river, California. (Cat. no. 37257, Free Museum 
of Science and Art, University of Pennsylvania.) 
Set of ninety fine splints (figure 341), stained yellow, four marked 
with black in the center, ten with black spiral in center, and ten 
with black spiral at the ends: length, 94 inches. Eleven plain 
splints in the bundle are 8? inches in length. 
Collected by the writer in 1900. 
The game is called hauk-tsu, the sticks eis-kok, and the marked stick, or ace, 
pai-kotz. 
Another set, cat. no. 37258, consists of forty-seven coarse splints, two 
marked with black, 9 inches in length. 
