320 GAMES OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS  [eru. ann. 24 
21404) is of the same length, 1 inch in diameter at the middle, 
and about the same at the ends, and somewhat flat on four sides. 
One bone is wrapped with thread at the middle, where an in- 
cision is provided to receive it, and has thirty-two large incised 
rings arranged in pairs on opposite sides of the bands at equal 
distances around the bone. The other bone has no central band, 
and corresponding pairs of incised rings are arranged around it 
near the ends. 
These specimens were collected by Mr Harlan I. Smith, who gives 
the following account of the game: 
Two rows of players sit facing each other [figure 423]. Bach side has a 
drum and all sing, to which many keep time by pounding a board with sticks. 
Fic. 423. Kwakiutl Indians playing hand game; Fort Rupert, Vancouver island, British 
Columbia; from photograph by Mr Harlan I. Smith. 
The latter is done by the row that hides the bones, while the others rest and 
watch. One man shuffles the bones, and at last one of the other side guesses in 
which hand he holds the marked bone. <A correct guess is counted with a 
sharp stick, and the other side takes the bones. When the guessers fail to 
guess correctly, I believe they go on without a change. They bet on the game 
a pile of clothes placed in the center. 
Dr Franz Boas gives the following: 
A’laqoa, the well-known game of lehal, or hiding a bone; played with twenty 
counters. 
«Sixth Report on the Indians of British Columbia. Report of the Sixty-sixth Meeting 
of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, p. 578, London, 1896. 
