3,^,4 Tiif. roiNT i'.Ai;i;ow kskimo. 



apart and liis aims ui.lilt.'.l. <»ii tl,.. ivv.Tse, tlicir is ,i„ l..mlci-, but 

 a single a,.- and a man win. snpiMats liiniself with a Inng staff are drag- 

 Mind nn nieutiiin <il' the use of an.\ such seores among the eastern 

 I'lskinni. lint tlu\v are very eiiinnnin among those of the west, as shown 

 1)\' the Museum eolleetions. They reeord in this way, not. (»nly liunting 

 exi)loits l.ul all sorts of trivial oceurrenees. 



(JAMES AND PASTIMES!. 



.ne game which ai)pears to he of 

 1 with the twisters and marline 

 I heady described, though Lieut. 

 ly bits of sticlc or bone. 1 never 

 had an opportunity of watching a game of this sort played, as it is not 

 oft.'U jilayiMl at the village. It is a very jioiudar annisenu'Ut at the 

 deci- liunting camps, where Lieut. Kay often saw it played. According 

 to him the pla.\ias aic di\ided into sides, wlio sit on the ground about 

 .'5 yards apart, each side sticking up one of the marline spikes for a 

 mark to tliiow the twisters at. Six of the latter, he believes, make a 

 full set. One side tosses the whole set one at a time at the opposite 

 stake, and tlie jioints wliicli they make are counted up by their op- 

 lioncnts from the position vi' the twisters as tlieyfall. He did not learn 

 how (he points were reckoned, except that twisters with a mark on them 

 counted differently from the plain ones, or how long the game lasted, 

 each side taking its turn of casting at the opposite stake. He, however, 

 got the inijiression that the winning side kept the twisters belonging 

 to their opponents. ;\Ir. Nelson informs me in a letter that a similar 

 game is played with the same implements at Norton Sound. 



No. ot!."),'?!! |!l|, from Utkiavwiii, is a bag full of these tools as used 

 foi- ]p|aying this game. It contains 18 twi.sters, of different patterns, 

 and 7 marline s]iikes. The bag is of membrane, perhaps a bladder. It 

 is o\ old in slmpe, all in one piece, wjth a long opening in one side, 

 wliich is ch)sed by a i)iece of sinew braid alxmt 40 inches long. This is 

 knotted by one end round a fold of nH'nd)raneat one end of the mouth, 

 and when the bag is shut n\> is wrapi.ed round the middle of it. 



Some of tliesc ]ieople ha\ c leariu'd what cards are from the Nunatan- 

 miun. though they do not know how to n.se them. They described how 



na.tioMs ,,f .Icaling cards. They t,>hl us that the hiUer played :? great 

 d.'al. and -gave nnich." This -giving much" evidently referred to 

 gambling, for they told (^ai.t. Uerendeeu how two of the "Nuuatan- 

 miun" would sit down to j.lay.one with a big pile of fiu-s and one with 

 out any.an.l when they got up tiiefurs would all belong to the other man. 

 Fig. .-itit (No. :,i\:,:;\ |i'I|) represents some of a bunch of 2") little ivory 

 images which wre strung .>n a bit of seal thong. One is a neatly 

 carved fox. L'-7 inclies long, and the r.'st are ducks or geese, rather 



