CULIN] HAND GAME: CALAPOOYA 2383 
COPEHAN STOCK 
WINTUN. California. (Cat. no. ;?%,, American Museum of Natural 
History. ) 
Four bones (figure 365), 24 inches in length, two tied in the middle 
with cord and two plain. Collected in 1902 
by Mr Howard Wilson, who gives the name (== 
as dam. 
COSTANOAN STOCK 
Rumsen. Monterey, California. 
J. F. G. de la Pérouse * says: 
The other game,? named toussi, is more easy; they 
play it with four, two on each side; each in his turn 
hides a piece of wood in his hands, whilst his partner 
makes a thousand gestures to take off the attention 
of the adversaries. It is curious enough to a stander-by ae es 
7 1G, 365. Bones for han 
to see them squatted down opposite to each other, keep- - 7 ore 
" ‘ game; length, 2} inches; 
ing the most profound silence, watching the features  wWintun Indians. Cali- 
and most minute circumstances which may assist them fornia; cat. no. z§2-, 
in discovering the hand which conceals the piece of . American Museum of 
3 < : A Natural History. 
wood; they gain or lose a point according to their guess- 
ing right or wrong, and those who gain it have a right to hide in their turn: 
the game is 5 points, and the common stake is beads, and among the independent 
Indians the favors of their women. 
ESKIMAUAN STOCK 
Eskimo (Labrador). Ungava. 
Mr Lucien M. Turner ° says: 
The young girls often play the game of taking an object and secreting it 
within the closed hand. Another is called upon to guess the contents. She 
makes inquiries as to the size, color, etc., of the object. From the answers she 
gradually guesses what the thing is. 
KALAPOOIAN STOCK 
Catapooya. Siletz reservation, Oregon. (Cat. no. 63605, Field Co- 
lumbian Museum. ) 
Four bones (figure 366), 34 inches in length and i inch in diameter 
at ends, two with a leather band around the middle and two 
plain. Ten counting sticks of willow, 83 inches in length, 
pointed at one end, with a black burned band at top. 
@A Voyage, round the World in the years 1785, 1786, 1787, and 1788, vy. 2, p. 224, 
London, 1798. 
>See p. 472. 
¢ Ethnology of the Ungava District. Eleventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethno! 
ogy, p. 255, 1894. 
