118 GAMES OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS _ [er ann. 24 
The implements for a Seneca bowl game collected by Mr John 
N. B. Hewitt, of the Bureau of American Ethnology (cat. no. 21073, 
Free Museum of Science and Art, University of Pennsylvania), from 
the Seneca Indians, Cattaraugus 
reservation, Cattaraugus county, 
N. Y., consist of a wooden bowl 
(figure 120) 92 inches in diameter 
and six dice made of fruit stones. 
A set of bone gaming disks from 
Fig. 120. Fig. 121. 
Fig. 120. Peach-stone bowl game; diameter of bowl, 9 inches; Seneca Indians, New York; cat. 
no, 21073, Free Museum of Science and Art, University of Pennsylvania. 
Fig. 121. Bone dice; diameter, § inch; Seneca Indians, New York; cat. no. 21073, Free Museum 
of Science and Art, University of Pennsylvania. 
the same tribe and place are represented in figure 121. As will be 
seen, they are eight in number and marked on one side, in a way 
similar to those of the Micmac and Penobscot. 
Tuscarora. North Carolina. 
Referring to the North Carolina Indians, John Lawson? writes: 
They have several other games, as with the kernels or stones of persimmons, 
which are in effect the same as our dice, because winning or losing depends on 
which side appears uppermost and how they happen to fall together. 
Again, speaking of their gambling, he says: ? 
Their arithmetic was kept with a heap of Indian grain. 
He does not specify this game as played by any particular tribe 
in North Carolina, and it was probably common to all of them. 
Wranpor. Kansas. 
Mr William E. Connelley writes me as follows: 
There is little I can say about games. The Wyandot are now three-fourths 
white in blood. There is scarcely a quarter-blood to be found in some neigh- 
borhoods. Until they came to Kansas in 1843 they kept up the game between 
«The History of North Carolina, p. 176, London, 1714. >Ibid., p. 27. 
