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women seldom or never played this game. The players knelt in two rows, 
facing one another. Each side had two short bones [figure 395], one of which 
had a sinew thread tied around the middle. The side playing passed these 
bones through their hands, the opposite side having 
to guess the hand of the player which held the plain 
bone. The side playing sang a “ lehal”’ song to the 
accompaniment of drums. They generally kept 
time by beating sticks on the floor or on a board. 
Sometimes neither drums nor sticks were used, but = 
they simply sang. Many of the players wore over Fic. 39. Bones for hand 
their knuckles pieces of weasel or other skin, from game; length, 3 inches; 
which hung many thin strips of buckskin [figure he ete sean ones pe 
396]. Some of these skin covers reached up to the American Museum of Natu- 
wrist, where they were fastened. Other players used ral History. 
strings set with fawn’s hoofs around the wrists to 
make a rattling noise. This game is still often played by the young men. 
A note continues: 
The stake was generally valued at 12 counters, which were represented by 
12 sticks. Each party had 6 of these counters. When one party guessed wrong 
they forfeited a counter, which was thrown over to the party opposite. When 
one of the parties guessed right, the gambling bones were thrown over to them, 
and it was their turn to sing and to hide 
the bones. When one party won all the 
counters, the game wasatanend. When 
a large number of gamblers took part in 
the game, two pairs of gambling bones 
were used. 
Mr Charles Hill-Tout® says: 
Gambling was also a favorite pastime 
here as elsewhere. The game known 
as I’tpiq was that commonly practiced. 
x Much betting went on among the players, 
Fig, 396. Knuckle-covering for handgame 44 all bets were made and “ booked ” 
players; length. 6 inches; Thompson In- & 
dians, British Columbia; cat. no. ;4%7, before the game commenced. The method 
American Museum of Natural History. of “booking”? was primitive. The ob- 
jects staked were simply tied or fastened 
together and set on one side till the game was over, the winner then taking his 
own and his opponent’s property. 
Twana. Washington. (Cat. no. 19748, 19749, Field Columbian 
Museum. ) 5 
Set of two bones (figure 397), 2f imches in length and 14 inches in 
diameter at the middle, the ends flat. The hollow interior of 
the bones is plugged with wood. One has a line of incised dots 
encircling it at each end, and the other (the marked one) similar 
lines of dots at the ends and three lines of dots around the mid- 
dle. On one side the head of an animal is incised on the opposite 
sides of the line. Collected by Rev. Myron Eells. 
«Notes on the N’tlaka’pamug of British Columbia. Report of the Sixty-ninth Meeting 
of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, p. 507, London, 1900. 
