328 GAMES OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS _ [pru. ann. 24 
The four sticks may be referred to the War Gods and their bows. 
The implements for a prehistoric game from a cliff-dwelling in the 
Canyon de Chelly, Arizona, which may have been played like the 
four-stick game are represented in figure 
433. ‘These objects consist of eleven wooden 
billets, 7 inches in length, rounded at 
the ends, and polished by use. They are 
painted to correspond with the stick dice 
and the tubes for the guessing game. 
CHINOOKAN STOCK 
Crackama. Mouth of the Willamette 
river, Oregon. 
Paul. Kane describes the following 
game: 
Two were seated together on skins, and im- 
mediately opposite to them sat two others, sev- 
eral trinkets and ornaments being placed be- 
tween them for which they played. The game 
consists in one of them having his hands coy- 
ered with a small round mat resting on the 
ground. He has four small sticks in his hands, 
which he disposes under the mat in certain 
Fic. 433. Billets for game: EAR positions, requiring the opposite party to guess 
7 inches; cliff-dwelling, Canyon how he has placed them. If he guesses right, 
de Chelly, Arizona; cat. no. 12061, the mat is handed round to the next, and a stick 
Brooklyn Institute Museum. is stuck up as a counter in his favor. If wrong, 
a stick is stuck up on the opposite side as a mark against him. This, like almost 
all the Indian games, was accompanied with singing; but in this case the sing- 
ing was particularly sweet and wild, possessing a harmony I never heard before 
or since amongst Indians. 
LUTUAMIAN STOCK 
Kiamatu. Upper Klamath lake, Oregon. (Cat. no. 61537, Field 
Columbian Museum.) 
Four hardwood sticks (plate vr), 12 inches in length. Two of the 
sticks, skutash, are less than one-half inch in diameter and are 
closely covered with wrappings extending from end to end of a 
buckskin thong, which has been painted black; the other two 
sticks, mu meni, or solses, are one-half inch in diameter at the 
ends and an inch at the center, and the extremities have been 
blackened by being charred with a hot iron. Toward the center 
of these sticks are two bands, 2 inches apart, which have been 
burnt in. Connecting the two bands are four parallel spirals, 
also made by burning. There are also six small sticks, 8 inches 
in length, sharpened at one end and painted red; these are 
¢ Wanderings of an Artist among the Indians of North America, p. 196, London, 1859. 
See also the Canadian Journal, p. 276, Toronto, June, 1855. 
