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The value of the throws as played were : 

 First throw (tap) 3 white dice and 5 red, 1 count. 

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

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

 Fourth throw, 2 white dice and 6 red. 4 counts. 

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



I watched this game till one of the players who had sold some hay for 

 $180 the day before was staking a handful of nails on the game. 



Turning from this game. I heard a vigorous drum tap in one of the houses 

 and on entering the houi-e I found several Indians playing the Moccasin 

 Game. It is a curious affair and re.sembled our "shell game" in many re- 

 spects. A blanket was spread on the floor and on it in front of the p'ayer 

 were four inverted moccasis. The player had four bullets in his hand, one 

 of which was marked and was the winning bullet. As the winners sang, 

 this actor (player), to disconcert his opponents, shrugged his shoulders, 

 waved his hands and went through various contortions and sliglit-of-hand 

 Ijerformances, as he slipped one bullet after another under a moccasin. 

 When all had been placed, the guessing then began. An opponent went 

 through various preliminaries with a long stick to see if he could detect 

 from the action of the hider of the bullets under which moccasin he had hid 

 the marked bullet. Then with this stick he struck th.e moccasin under which 

 he thought the marked bullet was hid. Sometimes l.e won and got the moc- 

 casins and the bullets, and his opponents began to guess. Each time the 

 guesser failed to gue.^s right, he lost a tally count. Forty tally counts gave 

 the winner the game. 



While watching this moccasin game, my attention was atti*act,ed to a 

 deep sounding drum beat beyond a little raise of ground. So I repaired 

 to the spot from whence the sound came. There I saw the medicine fra- 

 ternity initiating a "subject"' into the medicine lodge, called "Medawin" 

 (lodge) by the Indians. The medicine ceremonies were being held in a long 

 drawn-out wigwam of 100 feet or more in length, a wigwam all but having 

 the bark roof on it. I went close to the lodge and saw the people eating 

 puppy soup with a relish. And soon thereafter the dance was begun, or 

 rather resumed, as they had been dancing previous to the dog-feast i>eriod. 

 Two old men began to chant in the minor key, while both beat a crude 

 drum. As soon as the chant reached a fairly high pitch, the dancers began 

 to line up in column style, the "navitiate" heading the column. The dance 

 was a forward movement encircling the central space of the lodge, the 

 movement being a tripping, gliding dance. As each one thus ^danced, he 

 waved some medicine trophy in each hand, usually the skin of a bird or 

 some animal. As they thus waved the medicine things, they gave forth 

 peculiar utterances in grunting style and glided, tripped on. 



As I was watching this dance, I noticed that through the center of the 

 lodge longitudinally there were hung blankets and much bright colored 

 calicos, the navitiate's price to join the order. And at the close of the cere- 

 mony, I noticed further that the medicine men took these medicine gifts 

 up themselves, as a price of their services. 



