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Referring to a set of four sticks collected by him at the Klamath 
agency in 1887, which he says are almost identical with those in the 
National Museum, Doctor Gatschet writes: 
The two shu'Ishesh sticks are carefully whittled from the mountain mahogany 
(Cerocarpus ledifolius). : 
In his work on the Klamath * Doctor Gatschet has described this 
game, as played by the Klamath lake people, under the names of 
spélshna, shulshéshla, shakla, shakalsha, with four sticks about one 
foot in length. There are two thick sticks and two slender sticks, the 
latter wrapped in narrow strips of buckskin leather. They indicate 
the supposed location of the four game sticks lying under a cover by 
putting forward fingers. They guess the slender sticks with the in- 
dex and middle finger; the thick sticks with the index finger alone, 
and the thicker sticks coupled on one side, and the thinner ones on the 
other, vi’ish, with a side motion of the hand and thumb. By the 
last, va’ish, they win one counting stick; with index and middle 
finger, two counting sticks. 
The name spelshna is derived from speiluish, the index finger. 
The counting sticks, of which six are commonly used, are called 
ksé’sh, kshi’sh, from kshéna, to carry off. 
Mopoc. Fall river, Shasta county, California. 
Dr J. W. Hudson describes a game played by women, under the 
name of ishkake: 
Three marked sticks and one plain are used, and their relative position in the 
hidden hand guessed at. 
SHASTAN STOCK 
Acnomawi. Hat creek, California. (Cat. no. ;%9,, American Mu- 
seum of Natural History.) 
Fia. 439. Four-stick game; lengths of sticks, 10 and 6} inches; Achomawi Indians, Hat creek, 
California; cat. no. ;{/;, American Museum of Natural History. 
Two sticks, tapering to ends (figure 439), 10 inches in length, and 
two smaller, thinner sticks, about 63 inches in length. 
Collected in 1903 by Dr Roland B. Dixon, who gives the name as 
teisuli. Doctor Dixon writes: 
The game is played with the aid of one of the large flat, soft basket plaques, 
under which the sticks are shifted. 
«The Klamath Indians of Southwestern Oregon. Contributions to North American 
Ethnology, v. 2, pt. 1, p. 79, Washington, 1890. 
