CHESS AND PLAYING-CARDS. 



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Passamaquoddy. Maine. 



The bowl game among these Indians is desciibed by Mrs. W. W. 

 Browu,' of Calais, Maine, under the name of AU-tes teg-cnuk. 



Fig. 29. 



MANNER OF HOLDING DiSH IN ALL-TES-TEG-ENUK. 



Passamaquoddy Indians, Maine. 



After Mrs. W. W. Brown. 



It is played by two persons kneeling, a folded blanket between them serving as a 

 cushion on which to strike the shallow wooden dish, named tval-tah-hd-mo'g'n . This 

 dish contains six thin bone disks (tig. 28), about | inch in diameter, carved and col- 

 ored on one side and plain on the other. These are tossed or turned over by holding 



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Fig. 30. 



COUNTING STICKS. 



Length, 6§ to 6^ Indies. . 

 Passamaquoddy Indians, Maine. 



From sketch by Mrs. W. \V. lirown. 



tlie dish firmly in the hands and striking down hard on the cushion (fig. 29). For 

 counting in this game there are forty eight small sticks, almost 5 inches in length, 

 named ha-<jii-ta-md-(fn'al; four somewhat larger, named t'k'm-ivay-ivdl, and one 

 notched, called non-d-da-ma-tvuch (fig. 30). 



'Some Indoor and Outdoor Games of the Wabauaki Indians, Trans. Roy. Soc. 

 Canada, Sec. II, 1888, p. 41. 



