302 GAMES OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS _ [nTH. ann. 24 
Puyatiur. Cedar river, Washington. (Cat. no. 55923, 55924, 55933, 
55934, Field Columbian Museum. ) 
Four sets of gambling bones of two each (figure 394 a, b, ec, d), 23 
inches long and an inch in greatest diameter, one in each set hay- 
ing incised lines painted black around the middle, and all 
marked with incised circles painted red and black. Collected 
by Dr George A. Dorsey. 
Fig. 394 a, b, c, d. Bones for hand game; length, 2} inches; Puyallup Indians, Cedar river, 
Washington; cat. no. 55923, 55924, 55933, 55934, Field Columbian Museum. 
Suuswar. Kamloops, British Columbia. 
Dr Franz Boas“ says they play the well-known game of lehal. 
SonetsH. Near Victoria, British Columbia. 
Commander R. C. Mayne ” says: 
I have only seen two games played by them, in both of which the object was to 
guess the spot where a small counter happened to be. In one of these games 
the counter was held in the player’s hands, which he kept swinging backwards 
and forwards. Every now and then he would stop, and some one would guess in 
which hand he held the counter, winning, of course, if he guessed right. The 
calm intensity and apparent freedom from excitement with which they watch 
the progress of this game is perfect, and you only know the intense anxiety they 
really feel by watching their faces and the twitching of their limbs. 
The other game consisted of two blankets spread out upon the ground, and 
covered with sawdust about an inch thick. In this was placed the counter, a 
piece of bone or iron about the size of half-a-crown, and one of the players 
shuffled it about, the others in turn guessing where it was. These games are 
usually played by ten or twelve men, who sit in a circle, with the property to be 
staked, if, as is usual, it consists of blankets or clothes, near them. Chanting is 
very commonly kept up during the game, probably to allay the excitement. I 
never saw women gamble. 
Tuomeson Inprans. British Columbia. 
Mr James Teit ° says: 
Another very common game, played principally by men, was the “ guessing 
game” (known to the whites as “lehal”’). Many Spences Bridge women used to 
play it, and had a different song for it from that of the men. Lower Thompson 
«Sixth Report on the Northwest Tribes of Canada. Report of the Sixtieth Meeting of 
the British Association for the Advancement of Science, p. 641, London, 1891. 
* Four Years in British Columbia and Vancouver Island, p. 275, London, 1862. 
¢'The Thompson Indians of British Columbia. Memoirs of the American Museum of 
Natural History, v. 2, p. 275, New York, 1900. 
