g94 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1896. 



Mr Grinnell informs me that the specimen figured came from the 

 ^^Northern Cheyenne Agency, officially known as the Tongue River 

 Agency, in Montana, the Indians living on Rosebud and Tongue rivers, 

 which are tributaries of the Yellowstone from the south At the same 

 time the southern Cheyennes of Indian Territory have the same game. 



Chippewa. Lake Superior Region. 



Schoolcraft! describes the bowl game of the Chippewa under the 

 name of puggesaing. 



Fig. 16. 



DICE FOR BOWL GAME. 



Chi'ppewa Indiana. 



After Schoolcraft. 



It is played with thirteen pieces, nine of which are formed of hone and foni of 

 hrass, lu of circular shape (fig. 16). The right side of the eigh pieces of hone are 

 etain;d red, with edges and dots burned black with a hot iron; the reverse is white 

 The brass pieces have the right side convex and the reverse concave. Ihe convex 

 surface is brisiht, the concave dark or dull. o ^ •« 



The first piece, called ininees, or ogima, represents a ruler. No. 2 typifies an am- 

 phibious monster, and is .ailed (jitchy kindbik, or the great serpent, ^o. 3 represents 

 the war club. No. 4 is a fish {kenozha). No. 5 are small disks of brass, and ^o. 6, a 



duck, aheeaheel). , 



• Information respecting the history, conditions, and prospects of the Indian tribes 

 of the United States, Philadelphia, 1853, II, p. 72. 



