. Chess and playing cards. Fig. COUNTERS. RADIAL BONES OF BIRD. Length, about 3 (?) Indians, Tnlalip Agency, Washington. Cat. No. 130990, small string in the middle. It is called iHJr ale & sen. persons. According to the value of the stakes, thirty or forty sticks are placed between the players. One begins to throwup or down he wins two the faces of the two menare up, of the two womendown, or vice versa, he wins onestiek. When the face of the iHk-ak ( sen is up, all others down,or vice versa, he wins four wins a stick goes onplaying. W
. Chess and playing cards. Fig. COUNTERS. RADIAL BONES OF BIRD. Length, about 3 (?) Indians, Tnlalip Agency, Washington. Cat. No. 130990, small string in the middle. It is called iHJr ale & sen. persons. According to the value of the stakes, thirty or forty sticks are placed between the players. One begins to throwup or down he wins two the faces of the two menare up, of the two womendown, or vice versa, he wins onestiek. When the face of the iHk-ak ( sen is up, all others down,or vice versa, he wins four wins a stick goes onplaying. When one of the play-ers has obtained all the stickshe wins the game. Nisqualli. George Gibbs2 states: The women have a game be-longing properly to is played with four beaverteeth, meh-ta-la, having particu-lar marks on each side. Theyare thrown as dice, success de-pending on the arrangement inwhich they fall. When all the marked faces are either. Fig. 70. SET OF BEAVER TEETH DICE. Length, 1$ inches. Thompson River Indians, interior of British Columbia. Cat. No. g^j, American Museum of Natural Ilitory. In his Dictionary of the Xisqualli, the name of the game is given asme-tala, sme-ta-la; the highest or four point of the dice, Ices. Se<ond General Report on the Indians of British Columbia, Report of the Sixtiethmeeting of the British Association lor the Advancement of Science, Leeds, 1890,London. 1891, p. 571. 2Contributions to North American Ethnology, I, p. 206. CHESS AND PLAYING-CARDS. 747 Nslakyapamuk (Niakapamux).Thompson River Indians, interior of British Columbia. (Gat. No. Anicr. Mas. of Nat. Hist., New York.) Set of four beaver teeth dice (fig*. 70); one, partly split, wrapped withsinew. Marked on one face with lines and dots. Opposite sides by Mr. James British Columbia. Dr. Boas1 states they play the game of dice with beaver Washington. Kev. M. Eells writes:2 The dice a
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