112 GAMES OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS _ [ern ann. 24 
OnonpaGa. Grand River reserve, Ontario. (Field Columbian 
Museum. ) 
Cat. no. 55785. Set of eight bone disks, burned on one side, 1 inch in 
diameter. 
Cat. no. 55786. Set of eight bone disks, similar to preceding, three- 
fourths of an inch in diameter. 
Cat. no. 55787. Set of eight bone disks, similar to preceding, 1 inch 
in diameter. ; 
Cat. no. 55788. Wooden bowl, 93 inches in diameter. 
Cat. no. 55790. Wooden bowl, hemispheric, 12? inches in diameter, 
painted red, with green rim, and yellow dots at the edge. 
Cat. no. 55791.. Wooden bowl, hemispheric, 10% inches in diameter, 
machine made. 
Cat. no. 55789. Set of six worked peach stones, burned on one side, 
five-eighths of an inch in diameter. 
Cat. no. 55807, 55807a. Two sets of peach stones like the preceding, 
one five-eighths and the other three-fourths of an inch in diame- 
ter. 
These specimens were collected by Mr 8. C. Simms, who informed 
me that the Onondaga call the bone dice game daundahskaesadaquah, 
and the Cayuga the peach-stone game daundahqua, and gave the 
following account of the games: 
Game of da-un-dah-ska-e-sa-da-quah (Onondaga), consisting of a set of eight 
disks, each of a diameter of an inch, made from split beef ribs and blackened by 
heat upon one side. They are thrown with the hand, the count depending upon 
the number of faces which turn up of one color. If all are black, for instance, 
the count is 20; if all turn up but one, 4 is counted; if two, 2. After each 
successful throw the thrower is given the number of beans called for by his 
throw, from the bank, which usually begins with 50 beans, and the game contin- 
ues until one party has won them. This is purely a home game. During the 
game the buttons are constantly addressed with such remarks as o-han-da, 
meaning the thrower hopes the buttons will turn up one color; if there should 
be seven buttons that show the black sides and the remaining one has not 
yet settled sufficiently to determine the uppermost side, entreaties of hun-je, 
meaning all black, are directed to this one button by the thrower; if, on the 
other hand, the white sides appear, gan-ja, meaning all white, is sung out, 
accompanied by derisive shouts of tek-a-ne-ta-wé, meaning two, or scéort, mean- 
ing one. 
Peach-stone game, da-un-dah-qua (Cayuga). This game is played with a 
wooden bowl and six peach stones rubbed down and burned slightly on one side 
to blacken them. In the middle of the one large room of the long house where 
the game is played a blanket or a quilt is folded double and spread upon the floor. 
At the south edge of the blanket stands a vessel containing one hundred beans. 
The bowl is taken by the edge with both hands and is given a sharp rap upon 
the blanket, causing the peach stones to rebound and fall back within the bowl. 
There are four winning counts, viz: All white, counting 5; all black, 5; one 
white, 1, and one black, 1. For each successful throw the representative of the 
player is handed, from the stock of beans, as many as the throw calls for. A 
player keeps his place as long as he makes winning throws, but it is taken by 
another man or woman as soon as he makes an unsuccessful one. 
