cuLiy] HAND GAME: PIEGAN 271 
and 12 counting sticks (figure 346), willow twigs painted red, 
183 inches in length. Collected by Dr A. L. Kroeber in 1901. 
Cat. no. =3,. Two bones, cone-shaped (figure 347), 2 and 2} inches 
in length, incised with rings (one with twenty-four), painted 
red; perforated at the larger end, through which a tied thong is 
passed. Collected in 1901 by Dr A. L. Kroeber, who describes 
them as bone hiding buttons. 
Fig. 347. Fig. 348. Fig. 349. 
Fi. 345, a,b. Beads for hand game; length, 1} inches; Grosventre Indians, Montana; cat. no. 
x32, American Museum of Natural History. 
Fic. 346. Counting sticks for hand game; length, 18} inches; Grosventre Indians, Montana; 
eat. no. ;$2;, American Museum of Natural History. 
Fig. 347. Bones for hand game: lengths, 2 and 2} inches; Grosventre Indians, Montana; cat. no, 
y54x, American Museum of Natural History 
Fic. 348. Bone for hand game; length, 2} inches; Grosventre Indians, Montana; cat. no. 
yht7,, American Museum of Natural History 
Fic. 349. Bones for hand game; length, 2} inches; Piegan Indians, Alberta; cat. no. 69354, 
Field Columbian Museum. 
Cat. no. 73. Flat oval bone, highly polished and painted red and 
incised on one side, as shown in figure 348; length, 2+ inches. 
Collected in 1901 by Dr A. L. Kroeber, who describes it as a 
hiding button. 
Pircan. Alberta. (Cat. no. 69354, Field Columbian Museum.) 
Four bones for hand game (figure 349), solid, with rounded ends, 
two with black band at the middle, and two plain; length, 23 
inches. Collected by Mr R. M. Wilson. 
