292 GAMES OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS  [2&TH. Ann. 24 
red; length, 7 inches. Collected in 1900 by Dr George A. 
Dorsey. 
Fig. 378. 
Fia. 377. Bones for hand game; length, 3 inches; Klamath Indians, Oregon; cat. no. 37496, Free 
Museum of Science and Art, University of Pennsylvania. 
Fig. 378. Counting sticks for hand game; length, 7 inches; Klamath Indians, Oregon; cat. no. 
37496, Free Museum of Science and Art, University of Pennsylvania. 
Kuamatu. Upper Klamath lake, Oregon. (Cat. no. 61616, Field 
Columbian Museum. ) 
Four solid bones (figure 379), 3 inches in length, and tapering to 
each end. Two of the bones have wound about their centers 
several wrappings of a buckskin thong; all of them are deco- 
rated, the two plain ones having on one side of one end a double 
cross, while the’ marked bones have at one end an incision 
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Fig. 379. Bones for hand game; length, 3inches; Klamath Indians, Oregon; cat. no. 61616, Field 
Columbian Museum: from Dorsey. 
running around the bones, from which spring two parallel in- 
cised spirals, terminating under the wrappings. The set of 
bones is accompanied with twelve neatly made decorated wooden 
pins, 84 inches long. 
Collected in 1900 by Dr George A. Dorsey, who describes the game 
under the name of loipas: ¢ 
The two marked bones are known as skttash, tied around, or hishuaksh, 
male, while the unmarked bones are solsas, female. The twelve sticks serve 
as counters, kshesh. 
«Certain Gambling Games of the Klamath Indians. American Anthropologist, n. s., 
v. 3, p. 22, 1901. 
