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eter, hollow, and with square ends. In each set one bone is 
wrapped around the middle with a leather band. 
These were collected in 1897 by Dr George A. Dorsey, who bought 
them from a Kutenai who belongs to a little rene- 
gade band living at Bonners Ferry. Doctor Dorsey 
writes: 
This Indian told me that among the Kutenai, or at any 
rate among his people, whenever they played this game 
they always had two sets, thus obviating the necessity of 
Fic, 368. Bones for 2 J 3 
hand game; length, Passing the set back and forth from side to side, as would 
2; inches; Kutenai be the case if they played with but one set. In connection 
Indians, Idaho; cat. with these two Kutenai sets I send you some photographs I 
ea pees EE Oe took of some Kutenai playing this game, taken on the 
lumbian Museum. 
Bitter Root river, near Flathead lake, Mont. [figures 369, 
570]. I saw the game played by several different parties among the Flathead 
Indians, with whom this band of Kutnai is more or less intimately associated. 
Kourenat. British Columbia. 
Dr A. F. Chamberlain ¢ says: 
The Lower Kootenays are very much in love with gambling, which vice, through 
the efforts of the missionaries, has been entirely suppressed amongst the Upper 
Fic. 369. Kutenai Indians playing hand game; Montana; from photograph by Dr George A. 
Dorsey. 
Kootenays. In the gambling dance they chant Hai ya! hai ya! hai ya he, 
repeated an infinite number of times, interspersed with yells of ho ho! ha ha! 
“Report on the Kootenay Indians of South-Eastern British Columbia. Report of the 
Sixty-second Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, p. 561, 
London, 1893. 
