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the mounds it is shown that this form of the 

 game had a wide distribution. Stone rings 

 were used until recently in a similar game 

 by some of the tribes on the X. W. coast. 

 C'up-and-pin game. — An amusement 

 analogous to the cup-and-ball, or bilbo- 

 quet, of Europe. The game is universal 

 among the Indians, and exists in a great 



ESKIMO CUP-AND-PIN GAME 



variety of forms, all of which may be re- 

 ferred to the spider-web shield. Among 

 the Dakota the game is called the ' deer-toe 

 game' and played with a string of phalan- 



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CUP-AND-PIN GAME 



geal bones which are caught on a needle. 

 The Eskimo use solid Ijone or ivory de- 

 jects which are caught in the same way. 



Football. — The game commonly spoken 

 of as football is a ball race, chiefly con- 

 fined to the S. W., in which a email 

 wooden or stone ball is kicked around a 

 long course, the original object having 

 been the magical protection of the fields 

 against sand storms. The Tarahumare 

 derive their name from this game. 

 Football proper exists among the Eskimo. 



Four-stick game. — A game in wdiich 4 

 marked sticks or billets of two different 



FOUR-STICK GAME 



sizes are* hidden under a flat basket, 

 the object being to guess their relative 

 positions. 



Hand game. — The commonest and most 

 widely distributed of Indian guessing 

 games. Two (or four) bone or wooden 

 . - ■ rr, cylinders, one plain and 





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y-y^'i one marked, are held in 

 ^^4 the hands by one player, 

 the other side guessing 

 in which hand the un- 

 marked cylinder is con- 

 cealed. The game is 

 HAND GAME commonly counted with 



sticks and is played to the accompani- 

 ment of sonars or incantations. 



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Hidden-ball Game 



Hidden-ball game. — The common, gues- 

 sing game of the Southwestern tribes, 

 played with four w'ooden tubes or cups, 

 under one of which a 

 ball or stick is hid- 

 den. The opposing 

 side endeavors to 

 guess where the ob- 

 ject is concealed. 

 The four cups or 

 tubes refer to the 

 four world -quarters, 

 and the game is sacred to the war gods. 

 Hoop-and-pole. — A widely distributed 

 athletic game in which a hoop or ring, 

 frequently covered with network, is rolled 

 along the 

 ground and 

 shot at with 

 arrows or 

 javelins, the 

 counts being 

 determined 

 by the way 

 in which the 

 latter fall 

 with refer- 

 ence to the 

 ring. The 

 game exists 

 in a g reat 

 variety of 

 forms, all 

 more or less 

 related to and 

 associated 

 with ideas of fertility and generation. 



Juggling. — Juggling with balls, some- 

 times made of clay especially for the pur- 

 pose, is practised by the women of some 

 tribes. They keep two or more in the 

 air at one time, and endeavor to see 

 which can thus maintain them longest. 

 Kicked stick. — A game of the South- 

 western Indians, _ ^ 



notabl y t h e Zufi i , ( fr . ^^^^-^ ~ ^ '- M^ - .^ :-^-^3 

 in which two 

 small painted 

 sticks are kicked 

 in a race around a ceremonial circuit 

 inclosing the fields beyond the village. 

 Moccasin game. — A common guessmg 

 game of the northern tribes. Four moc- 

 casins are commonly employed and a 

 small object, such as a bullet, or a ball of 

 buffalo hair, is hidden in one of them. 

 The opposing side endeavors to guess 

 where it isconcealed. The game is counted 

 with sticks, and is clearly a derivative 

 of the hidden-ball game played with 

 wooden tubes. 



Patol. — The Spanish or Mexican name 

 of the stick-dice game among the Hopi 

 Indians and some of the Pueblos of the 

 Rio Grande. Derived from the Aztec 

 word patoUi , which the old Mexicans 

 are described as having played on a 

 painted mat, using beans as dice. 



HOOP-AND-POLE GAME 



KICKED STICK GAME 



