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play at dice in their Tray;" AsaikoKish, "the painted plumb stones with 

 which they throw ; " and PnttuckqiKqruoneJx, "A playing Arbour." He 

 describes the latter as made of long poles set in the earth, four square, 

 10 or 20 feet high, on which they hang great store of their stringed 

 money, having great staking, town against town, and two chosen out 

 of the rest by course to play the game at this kind of dice in the midst 

 of all their abettors, with great shouting and solemnity. He also says: 



The chief gamesters among them much desire to make their gods side with them 

 in their games; therefore 1 have seen them keep as a precious stone a piece of thun- 

 derbolt, wliicli is lilvo unto a crystal, which they dig out of tlie ground under some 

 tree thunder smitten, and Iroui this stone they have an opinion of success. 



NiPissiNG. Forty miles above Montreal, Canada. 



j\Ir. J. A. Cnoq ' describes the plnm stone game among this tribe under 

 the name of Pahesanal-, which he says is the usual name given to live 

 plum-stones, each marked with several dots on one side only. Four or 

 Ave women scptatting around a blanket make the stones jump about 

 the height of their forehead, and according to their falling on one or 

 the other side the fate of the player is decided. Of late the game has 

 been improved by using a platter instead of a cover (blanket), which 

 caused the name of the •' game of platter " to be given it by the whites. 



The name pakemnalc is the plural of pakesan^ defined as noyaii, jeu. 

 l>r. A. S. Gatschet has kindly given me the following analysis of this 

 word : i)alie = to fall, to let tall, s = diminutive, an = suffix of inanimate 

 nouns. 



NoKRiDGEWOCK. Xorridgcwock, Maine. 



In the Dictionary of Father Sebastian IJasIes,^ a number of words^ 

 referring to games are defined,^ from which it appears that the Nor- 

 ridgewock Indians played a game with a bowl and eight disks {ronds), 

 counting with grains. The disks were black on one side and white on 

 the other. If black and white turned up four and four, or five and 



^Lexique de la Langue Algonquine, Montreal, 1886. 



'^Memoirs American Academy of Science and Arts, new series, I, Cambridge, 1833. 



■Me joue avec des ronds blancs d'uu c6tc et uoirs de lautre, nederakM, v. nedamnke, 

 V. nedaSe' aiinar. 



Les ronds, /s«^' Sdnar; les grains, tagSssak. 



Les grains da jeu du plat, dicuntur dtiam, ('ssi'Sanai-. 



I.ors cju'ils s'en trouve du uombre de 8, 5 blancs et 3 noirs, v. 5 noirs et 3 blancs, 

 iieharham, keb, etc. (on ne tire rien); idem lit de 4 blancs et 4 noirs. 



Lors qu'il y en a 6 d'une couleur, et 2 de I'antre, nemesSdam, (on tire 4 grains). 



Lors qu'il y en a 7 d'une nicme couleur, el qu'un de I'antre, nedeneSi (on en tire 10). 



Lors qu'ils sout tons 8 do meme couleur, nSrihara (on en tire 20). 



Nesdkasi, je plante un bois dans terre p'r marcjuer les jiarties. 



Je lui gagne une partie, je mets un bois p'r, etc., veiiSdaf/Sh(ir((ii. 



^edasaliatnarikS, il me demar(|ue une ])artie, il oto un bois, etc. 



Jejoue an plat, nSaiirudchdma 3. San me. 



Mets les petits ronds, etc., 2>Sne essi'Sanar. 



Nedcrakchcna, jo les mets. 



•• Indian Games, Rulletiu <>f tlie Kssex Institute, XVIII, p. 187. 

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