gambling stick

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a small stick used by many Indian tribes to keep score when gambling. Those of the Pacific coast were beautifully made and decorated.

Quotations

1880

They [divide] their leisure time between listening to the priest and rattling their gambling-sticks, for all Indians seem to be born gamblers.