CHESS AND PLAYING-CARDS. 



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was a skull, aiul tho aU-ies-ieiJ-eniil- were the eyes of former victims. The game was 

 a long aud oxcitiug one, but at each toss off by tLe youug man the disks were carried 

 a little higher by his im-hc-gan until they disappeared altogether. This broke up 

 a game that has never been completed. The legend says that the old man still 

 waits and the young man still outwits him. 



Another rassain;i(|noddy game is described i)y Mrs. Urown under 

 the name of Wy-2'en-()(f-cnul{. 



This game, like AU-tes-ieij-ennk, has long been a gambling game. The disks are 

 very similar, but larger, and eight in number. The players stand opposite each 

 other with a blanket spread on the ground between tliem. The disks arc; held in 

 the palm of the hand, and "chucked" on the blanket. This game is counted with 

 sticks, the contestants determining the number of points necessary to win before 

 commencing to play. 



Penobscot. "Oldtown Indians," Maine. (Cat. No. 1G551, Miis. Arch., 

 Univ. Penn.) 



Set of counting-sticks of uupaiuted white wood (fig. 31), copied at 

 tlie Chicago Exposition by a Penobscot Indian from those in a set of 

 gaming implements consisting of dice, counters and bowl, there ex- 



Fig. 32. 



LIMESTONE DISKS, POSSIBLY USED IN GAME. 



a, 1 inch ill iliaineter; h, J inch iu diaiueter. 

 Nottawasaga, Ontario, Canada. 



Archa'ological Museuni, Toronto, Cinaila. 



liibited by the late Chief Joseph Nicolar of Ohltown. The latter fur- 

 nished the writer witli tlic Ibllowing account of the game under the 

 name of Wcr-lar-dtt-lKir mun <jun. 



The buttons used as dice in this game are made from the shoulder blade of a 

 moose; the counters of cedar wood. The latter are tifty-five in number, fifty-one 

 being rounded spliuts about 6 inches in length, three Hat splints of the same length, 

 and one made iu a zigzag shape. A soft bed is made in the ground, or on the lloor, 

 for tho dish to strike on. Two persons having been selected to play the game, they 

 seat themselves opposite to each other. The buttons are placed in the dish and it is 

 tossed up and brought down hard upon its soft bed. If five of the six l)uttons have 

 the same side up, the player takes three round sjiliuts, but if the entire six turn the 

 same side up, it is called a double, aud the player takes one of the flat ones. The 

 game is continued until all the counters are drawn. 



It might naturally be inferred that remains of the bone disks used in 

 the bowl game wonld be found in our archu'ological museums, but as 

 yet I have not met with any. On the other hand small disks of pot- 

 tery and of stone freiiuently marked on one face are not uncommon, 

 and are usually classified as gaming implements. I am indebted to 

 INIr. Bavid I3oyle, curator of the Archaeological Museum, Toronto, for 

 the sketch, fig. 32 a representing a small disk of soft white limestone 



