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Lakes Region, vol. 2, p. 165; Forsyth, ibidem, 212; A. R. Fulton, 
Red Men of Iowa, p. 443; A. Busby, Two Summers Among the Mus- 
quakies, p. 166. The form of punishment mentioned by Miss Owen, 
Folk-Lore of the Musquakie Indians, pp. 65, 66, must be exceptional. 
See the review of her work by Michelson, Curr. Anthrop. Lit. 2, pp. 
233-237. 
> Lazy girls are disliked (T). 
° The same injunction is given in T, but modified by the remark, 
“Of course people would like a girl to live with them a few days.”’ 
7“Tao” is played in the following way: If there are ten, they get 
nine short sticks all of which are the same length, and one long one. 
They are held between the thumb and index finger; the tops are seen. 
The one who makes the sticks does so secretly. When the one with 
the sticks comes to where other children are he tells them to pull out 
one each. Whoever gets the long one is to be the chaser. They will 
make marks on a tree or post. All assemble there except the one who 
has the long stick. If any child wants to run, the one who has the 
sticks will chase him (or her); or all can run out at the same time; in 
the latter case the chaser will chase any one he (or she) thinks he (or 
she) can catch. The rule is that the one chased must be touched 
squarely on the head. The one thus touched becomes the chaser’s 
partner, and helps in chasing. After all are caught, new sticks will 
be made; orif there chances to be a swift runner left they say he must 
be the chaser. 
8 Girls should learn to cook, make mattings, sacks, beadwork, and 
moccasins. In this way after marrying they will have an easy time 
(T). See references to Atwater, Fulton, Forsyth, Marston, Perrot, 
given above. 
® Even at the present time women usually fetch water and wood. 
However, men now ordinarily chop the wood. See references to 
Atwater, Fulton, Forsyth, Marston, Perrot, given above; also Fulton, 
l. c., p. 440, and A. B. Busby, Two Summers Among the Musquakies, 
p- 108. 
10 Even to-day the staple food of the Foxes is a fried bread. See 
Reports, Comm. Indian Affairs, 1896, p. 162, 1898, p. 171; Busby, 
l. c., p. 96; Fulton, 1. c., pp. 442, 443. 
“Tt is not lawful for a woman who is menstruating to eat with 
others; she secludes herself in a little lodge, and it is not considered 
proper for a man to linger about there, and a man is not to enter such 
alodge. It may be noted that to-day some young men violate these 
rules in both cases. It may be added that if a widower or widow (if 
unreleased from death-ceremonies) or a menstruating woman runs 
through a garden, the belief is that the crops will fail; if he or she 
touches a tree, the tree will die; or if he or she bridle or hitch a horse, 
the horse will die. The narrative supplies other details. Compare 
