cuLIN] HAND GAME: CHILKAT 287 
hé hé hai hai! hé hé hai hai! bt ha! ete. Another gambling refrain is 1 1 1! 
yaéee! 
The gambling consists in guessing in which hand one (on which a ring of 
bark is left) of two sticks of wood is hidden. The players sit in two rows 
Fic. 370. Kutenai Indians playing hand game; Montana; from photograph by Dr George A- 
Dorsey. 
facing each other, and a number of them keep beating on a log in front of them 
with sticks while the sticks are passed from hand to hand. From time to time 
some of the players sing or contort their limbs in various ways. 
KOLUSCHAN STOCK 
Cumxat. Alaska. 
Lieut. Frederick Schwatka, U. S. Army,’ says: 
The gambling game which they called la-hell was the favorite during the 
trip over the Chilkoot trail, although I understand that they have others not 
so complicated. This game requires an even number of players, generally 
from four to twelve, divided into two parties which face each other. These 
“teams” continue sitting about 2 or 3 feet apart, with their legs drawn up 
under them, A la Turque, the place selected being usually in sandy ground 
under the shade of a grove of poplar or willow trees. Each man lays a wager 
with the person directly opposite him, with whom alone he gambles as far as 
the gain or loss of his stake is concerned, although such loss or gain is deter- 
mined by the success of the team as a whole. In other words, when a game 
terminates one team, of course, is the winner, but each player wins only the 
*Along Alaska’s Great River, p. 70, New York, 1885. 
