CULIN] DICE GAMES: MENOMINEE 73 
being painted red on the curved side; accompanied by a wooden 
bowl, polished by use, 8} inches in diameter. Collected by Dr 
George A. Dorsey. 
Massacuuser. Massachusetts. 
William Wood, in his New England’s Prospect, relates the fol- 
lowing: 
They have two sorts of games, one called puim, the other hubbub, not much 
unlike cards and dice. . . . Hubbub is five small bones in a small smooth tray, 
the bones be like a die, but something flatter, 
black on the one side and white on the other, 
which they place on the ground, against which @ © 
violently thumping the platter, the bones mount 
changing colors with the windy whisking of their 2 
hands to and fro; which action in that sport they @ &) & 
much use, smiting themselves on the breast, and ) Sw 
thighs, crying out, Hub, Hub, Hub; they may be 2 
heard play at this game a quarter of a mile off. CG ¢ 
The bones being all black or white make a double : 
game; if three be of a color and two of another, Fie.59. Peach-stone dice; Kicka- 
then they afford but a single game; four of a Poo Indians, Oklahoma; cat. no. 
color and one differing is nothing; so long as 70702; Field! Columbian’ Museum. 
the man wins he keeps the tray; but if he lose, the next man takes it. 
Menominee. Wisconsin. 
Dr Walter J. Hoffman ” describes the Menominee form of the game 
under the name akaqsiwok (plate m1 4) : 
It was frequently played in former times, but of late is rarely seen. It is played 
for purposes of gambling, either by two individuals 
or by two sets of players. A hemispheric bowl 
[figure 60] made out of the large round nodules 
of a maple root is cut and hollowed out. The 
bowl, wagiiq’ koman, is symmetric and is very nicely 
finished. It measures 13 inches in diameter at the 
rim and is 6 inches in depth. It measures five- 
eighths of an inch in thickness at the rim, but grad- 
ually increases in thickness toward the bottom, 
Fic. 60. Bowl for dice; Me- which is about aninch thick. There are forty count- 
nominee Indians, Wisconsin; Paris 2 ? 
from Holmen, ers, called ma’atik, made of twigs or trimmed 
\ sticks of pine or other wood, each about 12 inches 
long and from one-fourth to one-third of an inch thick. Half of these are 
colored red, the other half black, or perhaps left their natural whitish color. 
The dice, or aka’sianoOk, consist of eight pieces of deer horn, about three- 
fourths of an inch in diameter and one-third of an inch thick, but thinner 
toward the edges. Sometimes plum stones or even pieces of wood are taken, one 
side of them being colored red, the other side remaining white or uncolored. 
When the players sit down to play, the bow! containing the dice is placed on the 
ground between the opponents: bets are made; the first player begins a song in 
“London, 1634. Reprint, Boston, p. 90, 1898. 
'The Menomini Indians. Fourteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, p. 
241, 1896. 
