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stick game 
1 See 1793 quote.
- 1793 (1801) We all sat down . . . and our guide and one of the [Carrier] party prepared to engage in play. Each had a bundle of about fifty small sticks neatly polished, of the size of a quill, and five inches long; a certain number of these sticks had red lines around them, and as many of these as the players might find convenient were curiously rolled up in dried grass, and according to the judgment of his antagonist respecting their number and marks he lost or won.
2 an Indian gambling game taking various forms, the winner being the player to whom falls a marked object (as a disc) mixed with several similar but unmarked objects.
See also: lahal
- 1963 Performances include the Swai-Swai dance, Lahal or stick game, Salish Mask dance, medicine, paddle and masked dances.
- 1965 They had sold their furs and we watched them [Beaver Indians] play the "stick" game which was accompanied by the roll of a drum.
- 1966 The Indians will work okay. They had a big stick game here and as usual it ended up with nobody winning . . . so everybody is now broke.
- 1793 (1801) We all sat down . . . and our guide and one of the [Carrier] party prepared to engage in play. Each had a bundle of about fifty small sticks neatly polished, of the size of a quill, and five inches long; a certain number of these sticks had red lines around them, and as many of these as the players might find convenient were curiously rolled up in dried grass, and according to the judgment of his antagonist respecting their number and marks he lost or won.