782 GAMES OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS  [5TH. Ann. 24 
player. The two opposite parties sit facing each other and throw the te’ko- 
against the little board on the other side, upon hitting which it rebounds to the 
knees of the successful player, who is then entitled to recommence and continue 
as long as luck favors him. Failing to get at the mark, the ta’ko’ is handed to 
the other partner. The number of points obtained indicates the winner. The 
old men profess to be ignorant of that game, which is probably adventitious 
among our Indians. 
CHINOOKAN STOCK 
Crarsop. Mouth of Columbia river, Oregon. 
Lewis and Clark describe the following game: 
Two pins are placed on the floor, about the distance of a foot from each other, 
and a small hole is made between them. The players then go about 10 feet 
from the hole, into which they try to roll a small piece resembling the men used 
in draughts; if they succeed in putting it into the hole, they win the stake; if 
the piece rolls between the pins, but does not go into the hole, nothing is won or 
lost; but the wager is wholly lost if the checker rolls outside the pins. 
Fic. 1074. Implements for te’*ko*; Takulli Indians, British Columbia; from Morice. 
SSKIMAUAN STOCK 
Eskimo (Centra). Cumberland sound, Baffin land, Franklin. 
Dr Franz Boas? says: 
The saketan resembles a roulette. A leather cup with a rounded bottom and 
a nozzle is placed on a board and turned round. When it stops the nozzle points 
to the winner. At present a tin cup fastened with a nail to a board is used for 
the same purpose [figure 1075]. 
Their way of managing the gain and loss is very curious. The first winner 
in the game must go to his hut and fetch anything he likes as a stake for the 
next winner, who, in turn receives it, but has to bring a new stake, in place of 
this, from his hut. Thus the only one who loses anything is the first winner of 
the game, while the only one who wins anything is the last winner. 
Again, of the Eskimo of the west coast of Hudson bay, Doctor 
Boas ° says: 
Women gamble with a musk-ox dipper, which is turned swiftly around. The 
person away from whom the handle points wins the stake, and has to place a 
stake in her turn. 
* History of the Expedition under the Command of Lewis and Clark, v. 2, p. 784, New 
York, 1893. 
>The Central Eskimo. Sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, p. 568, 1888. 
¢ Eskimo of Baffin Land and Hudson Bay. Bulletin of the American Museum of Nat- 
ural History, v. 15, p. 110, New York, 1901. 
