696 REPOiRT OP NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1896. 



Massachusetts. Massacliusetts. 



William Wood, iu liis "New England Prospect,"' relates the following: 



They have two sorts of games, one called j^Htm, the other linbbiib, not much unlike 

 cards and dice. Huhhnb is five small bones iu a small smooth tray, the bones be 

 like a die but something flatter, black on the one side and vrhite ou the other, which 

 they place on the ground, gainst which violently thumping the platter, the bones 

 mount changing colors with the windy whisking of their hands to and fro, which 

 action in that sjiort they much use, smiting themselves on the breast and thighs, 

 crying out Hub Hub Hub. They may be heard playing this game a quarter of a 

 mile off. Tlie bones being all black or white make a double game: if three of one 

 color and two of auotlier, then they aft'ord but a single game; four of a color and 



one differing is nothing. So long as the 

 man wins he keeps the tray, but if he lose 

 the next man takes it. 



Menominee. Wisconsin. 



Dr. Walter J. Hoffman ^ describes 

 the Menominee form of the game 

 under the name of a Icqa' siwolc. 



It was frequently played iu former times, 

 - '•^T-i i ifrf i ia'r'rt^^ lant of late is rarely seen. It is played for 



•^^^Sl'- purposes of gambling, either by two indi- 



GAMBLiNG BOWL. viduals or by two sets of players. A hem- 



Menoininee Indians. ispheric bowl (fig. 17), made out of the 



After iioffinaii. largc rouud nodules of a maple root, is 



cut and hollowed out. The bowl is symmetric and is very nicely finished. It meas- 

 ures 13 inches iu diameter at the rim, and is 6 inches in depth. It measures f inch 

 in thickness at the rim, but gradually increases in thickness toward the bottom, 

 which is about an inch thick. There are forty counters, called ma'atik, made of 

 twigs or trimmed sticks of pine or other wood, each about 12 inches long and from 

 i to ^ inch thick. Half of these are colored red, the other half black, or perhaps 

 left their natural whitish color. 



The dice or asl~a' sianoh consists of eight pieces of deer horn, about f inch in diam- 

 eter and \ inch thick, but thinner toward the edges. Sometimes plum-stones or 

 even pieces of wood are taken, one side of them being colored red, the other side 

 remaining white or uucolored. When the players sit downi to play the bowl containing 

 the dice is placed on the ground between the opponents; bets are made; the first 

 player begins a song in which the other players as well as the spectators join. At a 

 certain moment the one to ]>lay first strikes the bowl a smart tap, which causes the 

 dice to fly upward from the bottom of the bowl, and as they fall find settle the result is 

 watched with very keen interest. The value represented by the position of the dice 

 represents the number of counters which the player is permitted to take from the 

 ground. The A'alue of the throw is as follows : 



First throw, 4 red dice and 4 white, a draw. 

 Second throw, 5 red dice and 3 white, counts 1. 

 Third throw^, 6 red dice and 2 white, counts 4. 

 Fourth throw, 7 red dice and 1 white, counts 20. 

 Fifth throw, 8 red dice and white, counts 40. 

 The players strike the bowl alternately until one person wins all the counters — 

 both those ou the ground and those which the opponent may \\ii\e won. 



' London, 1634. 



2 The Menominee Indians, Fourteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American 

 Ethnology, p. 241. 



