cuLIN] HAND GAME: BANNOCK 307 
Yakima. Washington. 
Jack Long informed the writer that the Yakima call the hand 
game paliote, and that the Klikitat use the same name, while the 
Dalles Indians call it pesoguma. The Yakima call the marked bone 
walakaki and the white one plush, while the Klikitat call them 
gouikiha and tgope, respectively. 
Pandosy ® gives the following definition: 
To play with the hand, pa-li-o-sha. 
SHASTAN STOCK 
Acnomawi. Hat creek, California. (Cat. no. ;$%;, American Mu- 
seum of Natural History.) 
Four very small sticks (figure 401) about 14 inches in length, one 
plain and the other three marked with very fine lines in the 
middle. 
These were collected in 1903 by Dr Roland B. Dixon, who gives the 
name as yiskukiwa, and says they are used the same as the bones or 
sticks in the regular grass game. Dr J. W. Hud- 
son gives the name of the hand game played by 
these Indians as ishkake, and describes the game as 
played with one plain bone and three marked bones. 
iver S ‘ y ‘olj ] = 
Fall river, Shasta county, California. ESR ares 
Dr J. W. Hudson describes the following game: hand game; length, 
: ss . . ss ly inches; Achomawi 
An ovoid stone (bam, stone), 3 inches long, is hidden in Indians, Hat creek, 
the hand behind the back by either of two men, and the California; cat. no. 
location in one of the four hands is guessed at by the aifz, American Mu- 
* a ; z ? ; = seum of Natural 
opposing side. This stone is used to juggle in the air, and History, 
is also considered an amulet of great power. The game is 
played by men. In every male grave cairn is found one or more sets of these 
stones. Women are afraid of them. 
SHOSHONEAN STOCK 
Bannock. Rossfork agency, Idaho. 
Mr Thomas Blaine Donaldson in a letter” to the writer described 
the Bannock playing the game of hand, as witnessed by him on 
Thanksgiving Day in 1890. : 
You may see the willow-stick counters and the betares, or “ beaters,” with 
which they marked time on the saplings before them as they chanted a song 
when the time came for the selected Indian to guess the “right hand” of his 
opponent, 
— Fort Hall reservation, Idaho. (Cat. no. 37062, Free Museum 
of Science and Art, University of Pennsylvania.) 
«Grammar and Dictionary of the Yakama Language, New York, 1862. 
> February 25, 1901. 
