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bear grass blades. "Indian shoe strings,'" corresponding to the number 

 of tallies decided upon to constitute the game. When a side loses, the 

 tally keeper of that side gives a blade of grass to his opponent tally 

 keeper. When all the "Indian shoe strings" have passed to the possession 

 of any one side, that side has won the game. It is sun up by that time 

 and all go home, one half paupers, the other half as rich as the Indian 

 generally gets. 



Words used in the moccasin game: 



Ako. There (used when making a false motion as if to grab the ball). 



Don-dee. It is well. 



Kod-da. It is ready, the ball is hid. 



Tah-al. It is finished. 



Oa-kog-go. That is all. 



Ah-ko. Here, it is here. 



Doh. Play. 



Yah-lan-nee. Good-bye. you have lost, you are left. etc. 



Ken-not-tah-hah. The moccasin game (so called because originally the 

 prblile was hid in a moccasin).* 



♦Taken from the Apaches, their manners, customs, etc., furnished to the Bureau of 

 American Ethnology by the writer. 



