. Chess and playing cards. Fig. 72. PET OF BONE DICE. Lengths, 1| and li inches. Comanche Indians, Indian Territory. Cat. N. 152911ft, SHOSHONI. Fort Hall Agency, Idaho. (Cat. Xo. 22285, ) Set of four sticks 10 inches in length, & inch in breadth, and -,36- inchin thickness; rectangular in section (fig. 75). Made from grooved boxboards, which Mr. dishing pointed out to the writer were used as asubstitute for split canes. Burned on inner grooved side with fourtransverse marks, two near each end. Collected by William anil son. lLarrea Mexicana. Report of U. S. National Museu
. Chess and playing cards. Fig. 72. PET OF BONE DICE. Lengths, 1| and li inches. Comanche Indians, Indian Territory. Cat. N. 152911ft, SHOSHONI. Fort Hall Agency, Idaho. (Cat. Xo. 22285, ) Set of four sticks 10 inches in length, & inch in breadth, and -,36- inchin thickness; rectangular in section (fig. 75). Made from grooved boxboards, which Mr. dishing pointed out to the writer were used as asubstitute for split canes. Burned on inner grooved side with fourtransverse marks, two near each end. Collected by William anil son. lLarrea Mexicana. Report of U. S. National Museum, 1896.—Culm Plate 11. Bark Tablets thrown as Dice. Length. 5 to 10 Indians, No. 11217, CHESS AND PLAYING-CARDS. 749 Arizona. (Cat. ^To. 11217, ) Ten liat pieces of cedar bark (Plate 11),rectangular, with rounded cor-ners, from 5 to 10 inches in length and lj to 2J inches in width. Inner,
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