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number of pieces wins the game.* Similar figures of ivory- 

 were secured from the Eskimo of Plover Bay, Eastern 

 Siberia.! Figures closely resembling those noted above 

 were obtained in 1882 by Mr. E. W. Nelson from the St. 

 Lawrence Islands, Alaska, and are now in the United States 

 National Museum, 

 Washington ; these , 

 however, were per- 

 forated and were 

 evidently not in- 

 tended for use in any 

 game, but as orna- 

 mental pendants to 

 be attached to the 

 girdle or to some part 

 of the clothing, t 



The Eskimo of 

 Point Barrow, 

 Alaska, have occa- 

 sionally made use of 

 fossil ivory for their 



utensils, and three quite well-executed dippers of this 

 material were brought back by the American expedition to 

 this region in 1881-1883. From the village of Nuwuk came 

 a dipper with a large, nearly circular bowl. The rim of the 

 bowl and the handle are neatly ornamented with a design 

 of lines and small circles. Another of these dippers was 

 secured at the village of Sidaru, and a third, obtained at 

 Utkiavwin, was made of a single piece of fine-grained fossil 



♦Stewart Culin, "Chess and Playing Cards," Washington, 1898, p. 717, Fig. 42; pp. 665, 

 942 of Rej). of U. S. Nat. Mus. for 1896; see also Dr. Franz Boas in Fifth An. Rep. Bureau 

 of Ethn., Washington, 1888, p. 567. 



tOp. cit., p. 718, Fig. 43; see John Murdoch in Ninih An. Rep. Bureau of Ethnology, 

 1892, p. 364, 



tOp. cit., p. 718. 



IvoKT Images used as dice in game of Ting- 

 miujang. Central Eskimo. 



— From Stewart Culin "Chess and Playing 

 Cards," Washington, 1898 (Report of Nat. Mus., 

 1896, pp. 665-942) 



