It often requires a deal of coaxing and good pay to secure one of these highly prized "Coras." The women were as devoted to gambling as the men, and made flat trays for this purpose.

The dice were eight acorn shells, or half-walnut shells, first daubed over inside with pitch, and then inlaid with little shells which represented money.
I saw a tray and dice purchased most adroitly from an excited gambling party, who were at the time too much intoxicated to know exactly what they were doing.

After it had been paid for the owner was implored to sit down and gamble himself, hoping in this way to win more money and get back the board.

It was hard to withstand their forcible appeals, but the man ran away, and was obliged to hide all night for fear of assault.
Squaws would sometimes bet pieces of flesh from their arms when their money was gone, and many of them have been seen with rows of scars on their arms for this reason.

No basket can be finished by an Indian woman until she has ceased to bear children.