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discs hollowed on both sides, and used for playing the 

 almost universal game of the Indians, which was to 

 them what croquet has recently been to us, and which 

 was named chunks } or tshung-he. The game was 

 played on a flat rectangular space of ground prepared 

 for the purpose, and often enclosed. It consisted in 

 one player rolling a disc along the ground, while 

 others tried to throw spears or poles in such a manner 

 as to be near to the disc when it came to a state of 

 rest. The chungke yards figure largely in old Indian 

 sites, especially in the south, and the stones are often 

 found. It would seem that both paint- mortars and 

 chungke- stones occur among pre-historic human re- 

 mains in Europe, even among those which belong to 

 the Palaeolithic period. Stones referable to these 

 uses are figured by Christy and Lartet, and by Nilsson 

 and by Keller. It is to be observed, however, that 

 among rude nations stone implements are often in 

 case of need applied to uses different from those for 

 which they were intended. Hence it would not be 

 wonderful if round hammers were sometimes used for 

 chungke stones, and the reverse. Stones with similar 

 hollows were also used as drill-stones, to obtain fire 

 by the rapid revolution of a wooden stake. In the 

 collection of Mr. Jones, of Brooklyn, I have lately 

 seen chungke discs of large size and most elaborately 

 cut in hard quartzite. The work of forming them 

 must have been that almost of a life-time ; perhaps it 

 was perfected in successive generations. 



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