cuLIN] HAND GAME: POMO 289 
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with four dots. The latter has two perforations at right angles 
and is cut to receive a band. Collected by Lieut. George T. Em- 
mons, U. S. Navy. who describes the specimens as part of the 
paraphernalia of a shaman. 
372. Bones for hand game; length, 1: inches; Tlingit Indians, Alaska; cat. no. gos, American 
Museum of Natural History. i 
KULANAPAN STOCK 
Guatata. Sonoma county, California. 
Mr Stephen Powers * says: 
While among the Gualala I had an excellent opportunity of witnessing the gam- 
bling game of wi and tep, and a description of the same, with slight variations, 
will answer for nearly all the tribes in central and southern California. 5 
They gamble with four cylinders of bone about 2 inches long, two of which are 
plain and two marked with rings and strings tied around the middle. The 
game is conducted by four cld and experienced men, frequently gray-heads, two 
for each party, squatting on their knees on opposite sides of the fire. They 
have before them a quantity of fine dry grass, and, with their hands in rapid 
and juggling motion before and behind them, they roll up each piece of bone in 
a little bale, and the opposite party presently guess in which hand is the marked 
bone. Generally only one guesses at a time, which he does with the word “ tep,” 
marked one, * wi,” plain one. If he guesses right for both the players, they 
simply toss the bones over to him and his partner, and 
nothing is scored on either side. If he guesses right for 
one and wrong for the other, the one for whom he guessed 
right is “out,” but his partner rolls up the bones for an- 
other trial, and the guesser forfeits to them one of the 
twelve counters. If he guesses wrong for both, they still 
keep on, and he forfeits two counters. There are only 
twelve counters, and when they have been all won over to 
one side or the other the game is ended. Each Indian then 
takes out of the stake the article which he or she deposited, 
Fic. 373. Bones for together with that placed on it. so that every one of the 
hand game; length, winning party comes out with double the amount he staked. 
2 inches; Pomo In- 
dians, California. Pomo. Hopland, California. (Cat. no. 200295, 
cat. no.200295, United 
States National Mu. United States National Museum.) 
seum. Set of four bones (figure 373), 2% inches in length 
and one-half inch in diameter: interior hollow: two tied with- 
thread about the middle and two plain. 
“The Tribes of California. Contributions to North American Ethnology, y. 3, p. 189, 
Washington, 1877. 
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