. Chess and playing cards. Fig. 9:5. W 1)1 K. Kwakinti Indiana,British Columbia. Field Colombian Museum,Chicago, f After Boas.) be point in the game is to reach B before the other player, so as to kill him on thesecond half of the circle. CHESS AND PLAYING-CARDS. 767 The counts are as follows: 2 flat and notched stick notches up = 15 3 round sides up = 10:> flat sides up = 52 flat and 1 round side not notched up = 11 flat and 2 rouud sides not notched up = 1 This game is usually played all night on the night of November 3d of each 3d is known as The Day of the Dead, and
. Chess and playing cards. Fig. 9:5. W 1)1 K. Kwakinti Indiana,British Columbia. Field Colombian Museum,Chicago, f After Boas.) be point in the game is to reach B before the other player, so as to kill him on thesecond half of the circle. CHESS AND PLAYING-CARDS. 767 The counts are as follows: 2 flat and notched stick notches up = 15 3 round sides up = 10:> flat sides up = 52 flat and 1 round side not notched up = 11 flat and 2 rouud sides not notched up = 1 This game is usually played all night on the night of November 3d of each 3d is known as The Day of the Dead, and this game seems in some wayto be connected with it, or rather with its celebration, but I can not find out anytradition connecting the two. WAKASHAN STOCK. Kwakiutl. British Columbia. Dr. Franz Boas1 describes these Indians as using wooden dice(fig. 03) in a game called Eibayu. The casts count according to thenarrowness of the sides. The dice collected by him are in the FieldColumbian BEAVER TEETH DICE. Length, 2 1o 2£ inches. Makah Indians, Neah Bay, Washington. Cat. No. 33851, ( MAKAH. Neah Bay, Washington. (Cat. No. 23351, ) Seven beaver teeth, probably part of two or more sets. Two—rightand left—apparently From the same animal arc similarly marked on theflat side with chevron pattern (fig. 94 AB). Two. also apparentlyfrom the same animal, marked with circles and dots (fig. 94 CD). Twoteeth—right and left—are marked with three chevrons, and one oddtooth has ten circles. Collected by Mr. J. (i. following account of the game is given by the collector: Four teeth aroused; one side of each 1ms marks and the other is plain. Itall four marked sides come up. or all tour plain sides, the throws form a double: it t womarked and two plain ones come np. it is a single: uneven numbers lose. Sixth Report on the Indians of British Columbia, i». 10. 2The Indians of Cape Flattery, Smithsonian (Contributions to Know Ledge, 220,p. II. 7G8 REPORT
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