CULIN] UNCLASSIFIED GAMES: KWAKIUTL 785 
lines across the flat sides at top, and lower part cut round to form 
a handle. 
Two wooden darts, with blunt heads, 35 and 38 inches in length, one 
with a rattle in the handle end. 
Collected in 1904 by Dr C. F. Newcombe, who describes the game 
as follows: 
The flat piece is set firmly in the ground at an inclination from the player to 
form a kind of springboard. The players stand at about 10 feet from the board 
and throw the darts at it. The game is to catch the dart on the rebound as 
many times as possible, and he who first catches it ten times, not necessarily 
without an intervening miss, is the winner. No counters are used. This game 
is only played in the fall, when drying salmon. The game is k’lemgua, the dart 
k’lemgwa‘iu, and the spring klemgwa'yas. 
Fig. 1079. 
Fic. 1079. Slats for k*lemgua; lengths of slats, 15} and 21 inches; Kwakiutl Indians, British 
Columbia ; cat. no. 85850, Field Columbian Museum. 
Fra. 1080. Sticksfor mena (stopping-breath game); length, 6} inches; Kwakiutl Indians, British 
Columbia; cat. no. 85857, Field Columbian Museum. 
Kwaxrutt. Nawiti, British Columbia. (Cat. no. 85857, Field 
Columbian Museum.) 
Bundle of forty sticks (figure 1080), 64 inches in length. These were 
collected in 1904 by Dr C. F. Newcombe, who describes them as 
used in a game called mena. 
The sticks are laid in two parallel rows of twenty each, and one player tries 
to pick up as many sticks as possible and make two other similar rows while the 
other player stops his breath by holding his nose and mouth. It is played by men 
and boys, by two or more players in turns. The counters are called menasu. 
Nawiti, British Columbia. (Cat. no. 85856, Field Columbian 
Museum.) 
Bundle of forty sticks, 6 inches in length. 
These were collected in 1904 by Dr C. F. Newcombe, who describes 
them as follows: 
These sticks—the same as used in meni, are also employed in a counting 
game. The bundle of forty is arranged in bunches of from one to five, placed 
in any order in one or two lines. One player tries to commit to memory the 
number of sticks in each bunch in their order from left to right, and then turns 
around, and with his back to the sticks calls the number after the watcher says 
ginits? or “how many?” If correct, each bunch correctly named is put in one 
place, but if wrong, in another. The sticks are the unit for scoring. He who 
gets the greatest number of sticks wins. The game is called ginits, and the 
sticks ginitsa‘inu. 
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