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Cat. no. 59288. Set of counting sticks (figure 360) ; eight well-made 
shafts, 18 inches in length, with no trace of feathering or points, 
and four similar shafts, 12 inches in length; all painted dark 
blue. 
Cat. no. 59266. Set of counting sticks (figure 361); eight plain 
shafts, 16 inches in length, and four plain shafts, 10 inches in 
length; one half the 
number of each are 
painted blue and the 
other half red. 
The sets were collected 
by Dr George A. Dorsey, 
who described* them as 
they are arranged above, 
as illustrating the grad- 
ual transition of the count- 
Fia. 360. Counting sticks for hand game; lengths, 18 and ing stick used in the hand 
12 inches; Wichita Indians, Oklahoma; cat. no. 59288, game from the actual 
Field Columbian Museum. 
practical. arrow to the 
simple stick. The four shorter undecorated sticks are explained by 
the collector as each equivalent to eight of the long ones. Doctor Dor- 
sey stated that the bones used in the game most often consist of two 
bone tubes, such as are now purchased from traders for use in the 
Fig. 361. Fig. 362. 
Fia. 361. Counting sticks and beads for hand game; lengths of sticks, 16 and 10 inches; Wichita 
Indians, Oklahoma; cat. no. 59266, Field Columbian Museum. 
Fia. 362. Drum used in hand game; diameter, 16 inches; Wichita Indians, Oklahoma; cat, no. 
59317, Field Columbian Museum. 
manufacture of breast ornaments, and that he was informed that they 
use at times even a bullet or some equally unpretentious object. 
Cat. no. 59317. Small, double-headed drum (figure 362), 4 inches 
deep and 16 inches in diameter, made of two pieces of rawhide, 
carefully and evenly stretched over a circular wooden frame and 
laced along the median line. One head and half the body are 
painted blue, the other half being painted pink with a large 
blue circle in the center of the head. 
*Hand or Guessing Game among the Wichitas. The American Antiquarian, v. 25, p. 
366, 1901. 
