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GAMGAMTELATL GANERASKE 



[b. a. e. 



STICK GAME 



Snow snake. — A gaming imi^lement, 

 eome'times carved to represent a snake, 



SNOW SNAKES 



which is hurled along the ice or frozen 

 ground, the object being to see whose 

 'snake' will go farthest. 



Stick game. — A common guessing 

 game of the tribes of California and 

 the N. Pacific 

 coast, one that 

 extends en- 

 tirely across 

 the continent 

 to Canada and 

 the Atlantic. 

 The sticks, 

 probably orig- 

 inally arrow 

 shaftments,are 

 shuffled and di- 

 vided, the ob- 

 ject being to 

 guess in which bundle either the odd 

 or a particularly marked stick is con- 

 cealed. (See Straw game, below.) 



Stick dice game. — A widely distributed 

 game in which several 2-faced lots are 



, wtmwi'- - — - — -t, tossed in the air 



^ — " ■ ■ ■"'^^- ---^ like dice, the 

 counts being kept 

 J on a diagram or 

 with sticks. The 

 number of the 

 dice ranges from 

 3 upward, 4 being the inost common. 



Stilts. — Stilt -walking is a children's 

 sport among the Hopi and Shoshoni, and 

 from its existence in Mexico is probably 

 indigenous among the Indians. 



Straiu, game of. — The name given by 

 early writers to a guessing game played 

 by Huron and other tribes of the Atlan- 

 tic slope. The implements consisted of 

 fine splints or reeds, and the object of the 

 game was to guess the number, odd or 

 even, when the bundle was divided at 

 random. 



Tops. — The top is almost universal as 

 a child's plaything among the Indian 

 tribes of the United States and appears 

 to be indigenous. The common form is 

 a whip top made of horn, bone, stone, 

 or wood, spun on the ice or on frozen 

 ground. 



Consult Culin, American Indian Games, 

 24th Rep. B. A. E., 1906. (s. c.) 



Gamgamtelatl. A gens of the Tenaktok, 

 a Kwakiutl tribe. 



g'a'mS'amtElaL. — Boas in Rep. Nat. Mus., 331, 1895. 



Gamiskwakoka-wininiwak ( Kamlskwa- 



wa ku ka-wlnlnlivag, 'men or people of the 



STICK DICE GA 



place of much red cedar.' — Jones). A 

 Chippewa band about Cass lake, near the 

 head of the Mississippi, in Minnesota. 

 CassLakeband. — Common name. Gamiskwakoka- 

 wininiwak.— (ia I sHiet, Ojibwa MS., B.A.E., ISS'i. 

 Kamiskwawa'ku'ka-winiwiwag. — Wm. Jones, inf'n, 

 190.5 (correct Chijipewaform). 



Ganadoga ('it is a divided village.' — 

 Hewitt). A former Oneida village in 

 Oneida co., N. Y., near Oneida Castle. 



Ganadoga. A former Iroquois village 

 on the Canadian shore of L. Ontario, near 

 the site of Toronto. 



Ganadoke. — Homann Heirs' map, 1756. Ga-na'- 

 doque. — Morgan, League Iroq., -173, 1851. Kanada- 

 gerea.— Doc. of 1676 in Doc. Col. Hist. N. Y.,xin, 

 .502,1881. 



Ganagweh ('one took it out. '—Hewitt). 

 A former Seneca village about the site of 

 Palmyra, N. Y. 

 Ga'-na-gweh. — Morgan, League Iroq., 469,1851. 



Ganahadi (' people of Ganak,' an island 

 somewhere near the s. end of Alaska). 

 A Tlingit division which is said to have 

 moved from below the present town of 

 Port Simpson, Brit. Col., and to have sep- 

 arated into several branches, of which 

 one settled at Tongas, another at Taku, a 

 third at Chilkat, a fourth at Yakutat, and, 

 according to one informant, a fifth at 

 Klawak. (.i. r. s. ) 



Ganaxa'di. — Swanton, inf'n, 1904. Ganaxte'di. — 

 ibifl'. ' Kanach-adi. — Krause, Tlinkit ihd., 120, 

 1885. Kanach-tedi.— Ibid., 116. 



Ganasarage ( ' at the place of man- 

 drakes.' — Hewitt). A former Tuscarora 

 village on Canaseraga cr., at the present 

 site of Sullivan, N. Y. 



Canaseraga.— N. Y. Doc. Col. Hist., VII, 512, note, 

 1856. Canesraca. — Esnauts and Rapilly, map, 1782. 

 Ganaghsaragey. — Jolinson (1762) inN. Y. Doc. Col. 

 Hist., VII, 512, 1856. Ganaghsaragues.— German 

 Flats conf. (1770), ibid., viii, 229, 1857. Ga-na- 

 sa-ra"-ge. — Hewitt, inf'n, 1886 (Seneca form). 

 Kanadasero.— Johnson (1763) in N. Y. Doc. Col. 

 Hist., VII, 582, 18.56. Eanassarago. — Canajoharie 

 conf. (17.59), ibid., 382. 



Ganawagus ( 'it has a swampj' smell.' — 

 Hewitt). A former Seneca village on 

 Genesee r., near Avon, N. Y. 

 Canawagus. — Deed of 1797 in Am. State Papers, 

 Ind. Alf., I, 627, 1832. Conewaugus. — Cornplanter 

 (1822) ([uotcd by Drake, Bk. Inds., bk.v, 115,1848. 

 Ga'-na-wa'-gus. — Hewitt , inf'n, 1886(Seneca form). 

 Ganowauges. — Morgan, League Iroq., 468, 1851. 



Gandaseteiagon. A Cayuga village ex- 

 isting about 1670 near Port Hope, On- 

 tario, on the shore of L. Ontario. 



Ganadatsiagon. — Vaugondv, map (17.53), cited in 

 N. Y. Doc. Col. Hist., ix, 112, 18.55. Ganatcheskia- 

 gon.— Frontenac (1673) in Margry, D^c, i, 233, 

 1875. Ganatoheskiagon, — Frontenac (1673) in N. Y. 

 Doc. Col. Hist., IX, 112, 18.55 (misprint). Gandas- 

 chekiagon. — Frontenac (1674), ibid., 117. Gan- 

 daseteiagon. — Shea, note in Charlevoix, New 

 France, lil, 110, 1868. Gandatsiagon. — Bellin.map, 

 1755. Gandatskiagon. — Homann Heirs' map, 1756. 

 Ganedontwan {GiV-ne^-do^'-tivd», 'one 

 put hemlock in the fire.' — Hewitt). A 

 former Seneca village on the site of Mos- 

 cow, N. Y. 



Ga-nah'-da-on-tweh. — Morgan, League Iroq., 468, 



1851. 



Ganeraske. An Iroquois village that 

 stood about 1670 at the mouth of Trent r., 

 Ontario, near the n. e. end of L. Ontario. 



