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then cut into narrow strips, each one of which is twisted around a thread, leaving 

 the down outside, which thus forms a round cord of down resembling a lady's fur 

 boa. This is woven with twine and forms a compact, light, and very warm blanket. 

 The hair blankets are made from the woolly covering of a species of dog of a yel- 

 lowish-white color, which, after having been sheared off, is packed away with dry 

 pulverized pipe clay, for the purpose of extractmg the oil or grease. When a suf- 

 ficient quantity has been obtained, and has remained long enough in the pipe 

 clay, it is carefully picked over by hand, and beaten with a stick to knock out the 

 dirt. It is then twisted on strong threads, and finally woven into a thick, strong, 

 and heavy blanket. The pipe clay^ is procured at Kwilleyute. The weaving pro- 

 cess does not clean out all this substance, since its presence can be readily noticed at 

 any time by shaking or beating the blanket. Bark blankets and capes are made 

 from the inner bark of the cedar, dried and beaten into a fine mass of fibres, which 

 are then spun into threads, and woven into the required forms, the edges of which 

 are trimmed with fur. Very nice ones are also made by the Clyoquot Indians 

 from the inner bark of the white pine, which is whiter and softer than cedar bark. 

 Gambling Implements. — Of these one form consists of disks made from the wood 

 of a hazel which grows at Cape Flattery and vicinity. The shrub is from ten to 

 fifteen feet high, and with limbs from two to three inches in diameter. The name 

 in Makah is hul-li-a-ko-bupt, the disks hul-liak, and the game la-hul-lum. The 

 game is common among all the Indians of this territory, and is called in the jargon 

 la-hull. The disks are circular like checkers, about two inches in diameter, and 

 the fourth of an inch thick ; and are usually smoothed off and polished with care. 

 They are first cut off transversely from the end of a stick which has been selected 

 and properly prepared, then smoothed and polished, and marked on the outer edge 

 with the color that designates their value. They are used in sets of ten, one of 

 which is entirely black on the outer edge, another entirely white, and the rest of 

 aU degrees from black to white. Two persons play at the game, each having a mat 

 before him, with the end next his opponent slightly raised, so that the disks cannot 

 roll out of reach. Each player has ten disks which he covers with a quantity of 

 the finely-beaten bark, and then separates the heap into two equal parts, shifting 

 them rapidly on the mat from hand to hand. The opposing player guesses which 

 heap contains the white or black, and on making his selection the disks are roUed 

 down the mat, when each piece is separately seen. If he has guessed right, he wins ; 

 if not, he loses. Another game consists in passing a stick rapidly from hand to 

 hand, and the object is to guess in which hand it may be. A third game, played 

 by females, is with marked beaver teeth, which are thrown like dice. Four teeth 

 are used ; one side of each has marks, and the other is plain. If all four marked 

 sides come up, or all four plain sides, the throw forms a double ; if two marked and 

 two plain ones come up, it is a single ; uneven numbers lose. Both males and 

 females are passionately fond of these games, and continue them for days, or until 

 one or the other loses all that can be staked. 



' Diatoinaeeous earth. (G. G.) 



