314 GAMES OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS _ [etu. ayy. 24 
Cat. no. 36872. Set of twenty counting sticks (figure 413), peeled 
willow twigs, 183 inches in length, sharpened to a point, with 
the bark left at the top for a distance of 4 inches. 
All these were collected in 1900 by the writer. The name of the 
game is tinsok; to play the hand game, nyahwint; the white bone, 
tonatat: the marked bone, 
tosabit. The counting sticks 
are called tohuc. 
Suosnonr. Idaho. 
Granville Stuart “ gives un- 
der the term for * gamble or 
gambling,” nyawitch : 
They take two pieces of bone 
made for the purpose, about 24 
inches long and a fourth of an inch 
in thickness, one of which is coy- 
ered with some dark skin, except 
about half an inch at each end. 
Each party then takes a certain 
number of short pieces of willow 
sharpened at one end, which they 
stick in the ground and use to count 
the game. They take the pieces of 
bone one in each hand and _ shift 
them about rapidly with various 
contortions and twisting about, ac- 
Fic. 413. Counting sticks for hand game; length, companied with a kind of monoto- 
18} inches; Shoshoni Indians, Wyoming; cat. no. S$ SOI Bers aves See 
36872, Free Museum of Science and Art, Uni- ae SOME ARKO Nay gS TP GUESTS 
versity of Pennsylvania. while some of them generally beat 
time with a stick on a dry pole. 
The opposite party (it is played by any number, seated in two rows facing each 
other) guesses which hand contains the black bone (or the white one as they 
agree at the commencement of the game). If they guess right, they get the 
bones, and wrong they give the other side a stick, who keep hiding the bones till 
it is guessed, when the opposite party takes it, and goes through the same proc- 
ess: whoever wins all the sticks wins the game. 
TosrkHar (GapBRIELENOS). Los Angeles county, California. 
Hugo Ried ” says: 
Few games, and of a gambling nature. The principal one was called chur- 
ehairki (or peén, Spanish). It consists in guessing in which hand a small piece 
of stick was held concealed, by one of the four persons who composed a side who 
sat opposite to each other. They had their singers, who were paid by the victo- 
rious party at the end of the game. Fifteeen pieces of stick were laid on each 
side, as counters, and a person named as umpire, who, besides keeping account, 
settled the debts and prevented cheating, and held the stakes. Hach person 
@ Montana as It Is, p. 71, New York, 1865. 
* Hugo Ried’s Account of the Indians of Los Angeles Co., Cal. Bulletin of the Hssex 
Institute, v. 17, p. 17, Salem, 1885. ‘ 
