CULIN] HAND GAME: PENELAKUT 301 
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opponent now going through the same operation: every miss counts a stick on 
either side. It is not the best of three, but three times running: all the sticks 
must be on one side to finish the game. I have seen them for a whole week at 
one game and then not conclude, and I have known the game decided in six 
hours. 
It sometimes happens, however, that after some days and nights are spent in 
the same game, neither party gains: in that case the rules of the game provide 
that the number of players be increased or diminished; or, if all the players be 
agreed, the game is relinquished, each party taking up what is put down: but 
so intent are they on this favorite mode of passing their time, that it seldom 
happens that they, separate before the game is finished; and while it is in 
progress every other consideration is sacrificed to it: and some there are who 
devote all their time and means solely to gambling; and when all is lost. which 
is often the case, the loser seldom gives way to grief. 
Penevakxcur (Linmarcue). Kuper island, southeast of Vancouver 
island, British Columbia. (Cat no. [TV A 2375, Berlin Mu- 
seum fiir V6lkerkunde. ) 
Two bone cylinders, 22 inches in length, with incised patterns, as 
shown in figure 391: both wrapped with fine cord about the 
middle. 
Fig. 392. Fig. 393. 
Fic. 391. Bones for hand game; length, 24 inches; Penelakut Indians, Kuper island, British 
Columbia; cat. no. IV A 2375, Berlin Museum fiir Vélkerkunde. 
Fig. 392. Bones for hand game; length, 2: inches; Penelakut Indians, Kuper island, British 
Columbia; cat. no. IV A 2876, Berlin Museum fiir Vélkerkunde. 
Fic. 393. Bones for hand game; length, 2} inches; Penelakut Indians, Kuper island. British 
Columbia; cat. no. IV A 2377, Berlin Museum fiir Vélkerkunde. 
Kuper island, southeast of Vancouver island, British Colum- 
bia. (Cat. no. [TV A 2376, 2377, Berlin Museum fiir V6lk- 
erkunde. ) 
Two sets of bone cylinders: 
Cat. no. 2376. Two cylinders (figure 392), 24 inches in length, with 
incised rings, central dot at the ends, and one incised line around 
the middle. 
Cat. no. 2377. Two cylinders (figure 393), 2% inches in length, both 
with incised rings with central dot at ends, and one with central 
band of similar rings, with incised lines on both sides. 
All these specimens were collected by Capt. Samuel Jacobsen, who 
gave the anme of the game as slahall. 
