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Far West," 28 tells us that he found the young squaws (Min- 

 netarees) " playing a game of ball, resembling shinny or 

 foot-ball, inasmuch as the curved sticks and feet are called 

 into service." A game of ball, similar to the one de- 

 scribed by Catlin among the Sioux women, was played by 

 the women whom Kohl met. 29 Two leathern bags stuffed 

 with sand and connected by a thong were substituted for 

 balls. 



OTHER GAMES OF CHANCE. 



Several different forms of the guessing game as played 

 by the Indians of the northwest coast are described in the 

 former paper. The descriptions referred to in notes on 

 that paper and there credited to " The Northwest Coast," 

 by James G. Swan, will be found, in substantially the same 

 form in the "Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge." 30 

 The same author has also contributed a description of a 

 game played among the Haidahs 31 which closely resembles 

 the game described by Poole in his "Queen Charlotte Isl- 

 ands" to which reference was made in the former paper. 

 In that description the guess was whether the number of 

 sticks in the hand selected was odd or even. In the game 

 described by Swan, forty or fifty sticks were used, each 

 having some designating mark. One stick was entirely 

 colored and one was entirely plain. The guessing was de- 

 voted to picking out the hand in which the plain or the 

 colored sticks were held. The sticks were beautifully 



28 Among the Indians. Eight Years in the Far West, by Henry A. Boiler. 

 Philadelphia, 1868, p. 67. 



28 Kitchi-Gami, Wanderings Round Lake Superior, by J. G. Kohl, London, 1860, 

 p. 90. 



s The Indians of Cape Flattery, by James G. Swan, Smithsonian Contributions 

 to Knowledge, Vol. XVI, No. 220, p. 44. 



*' The Haiduh Indians of Queen Charlotte's Islands, British Columbia, etc., by 

 James G. Swan. Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge, Vol. xxi, No. 2t 7, p. 8. 



