318 GAMES OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS [eru. ann. 24 
hands and the players bet on the red stick with two notches. The game is also 
played by concealing the sticks under moccasins. 
The following particulars about this game were furnished by Dr 
George A. Dorsey: 
Name of game, humpapachapi; stick with two notches, nupahopi; stick with 
four notches, topapahopi; general name for both as a set, hakenuchkcimi. 
Hipatsa. Fort Atkinson, North Dakota. 
Henry A. Boller? says: 
Sometimes they gambled, playing their favorite game of Hand, in which they 
would get so excited that time passed unheeded. 
SKITTAGETAN STOCK 
Haipa. British Columbia. (Cat. no. 53097, Field Columbian 
Museum. ) 
Set of two kones (figure 417), 24 inches in length, oval in section 
(five-sixteenths by nine-sixteenths of an inch), one with a deep, 
incised cut in the middle wrapped with dark-colored thread, and 
the other plain. 
These were collected by Dr George A. Dorsey from a Haida Indian 
at Rivers inlet, British Columbia. Doctor Dor- 
= } = sey writes: 
This is the set of which I have already spoken to you 
—=—=) as being of the greatest interest, inasmuch as one of the 
bones is so constructed that it can be made to show up 
either white or black. I saw the Haida playing this 
game at Rivers inlet, but I did not see this set in use. 
The false bone is made in two pieces, one of which 
slides on a shoulder over the other. When they are 
Wig. 4172 ‘Bones: (ane partly slipped apart, this shoulder, wrapped with dark 
false) for hand game; thfead is revealed, giving the appearance of the marked 
length,24:inches; Haida bone. 
Indians, British Colum- a i ok 
bia; cat.no. 53097, Field MH Queen Charlotte islands, British Colum- 
Columbian Museum. bia. 
Dr J. R. Swanton ” describes “ doing secretly inside of blankets: ” 
K !itga’ stlgan.—The players formed two sides, stationed some distance 
apart; and the captain of one party, wearing a blanket over his shoulders so as 
to conceal his movements, passed down his line of players and dropped a wooden 
or stone ball inside of the blanket of one of them. He did this in such a way as 
not to excite the suspicions of his opponents. After that he went away to some 
distance and lay down, so as not to cast suspicious glances at the one who had 
the ball. Then one of the opposite party who was good at reading character 
tried to discover from the players’ faces who had it. When he had chosen one he 
said, ‘* You throw that out;” and if he guessed correctly his side got it, and all 
of them cried “A’ ga, a’ ga!” If he missed, the same thing was done over again. 
«Among the Indians: Fight years in the Far West, 1858-1866, p. 196, Philadelphia, 
1868. 
> Contributions to the Ethnology of the Haida. Memoirs of the American Museum of 
Natural History, whole series, v. 8, p. 60, New York, 1905. 
