272 GAMES OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS _ [ETH. ANN. 24 
ATHAPASCAN STOCK 
Cuipewyan. Athabasca. 
Father Petitot gives the following definition: 
Jeu de mains, udzi. 
This name, he states, is general to all the dialects. 
Ercuarrorrine. Fort Prince of Wales, Keewatin. 
Samuel Hearne ” says: 
They have another simple indoor game, which is that of taking a bit of wood, 
a button, or any other small thing, and, after shifting it from hand to hand 
several times, asking their antagonist which hand it is in. When playing at 
this game, which only admits of two persons, each of them have ten, fifteen, or 
twenty small chips of wood, like matches, and when one of the players guesses 
right he takes one of his antagonist’s sticks and lays it to his own; and he that 
first gets all the sticks from the other in that manner is said to win the game, 
which is generally for a single load of powder and shot, an arrow, or some 
other thing of inconsiderable value. 
Han Kurent. Alaska. 
Lieut. Frederick Schwatka,° U. S. Army, figures a pair of bones 
for the hand game as being used by the Aiyan and Chilkat. (See 
p. 288.) 
KawcnHopinne. Mackenzie. 
Father Petitot* gives the following definition : 
Jeu de mains, udzi. 
Kurenry. Alaska and Yukon. 
Father Petitot * gives the following definition : 
Jeu de mains, odzi. 
Sarst. British Columbia. 
Rev. E. F. Wilson ¢ describes the following game: 
Two men squat side by side on the ground, with a blanket over their knees, 
and they have some small article, such as two or three brass beads tied together, 
which they pass from one to another under the blanket; and the other side, 
which also consists of two persons, has to guess in which hand the article is 
to be found—very much like our children’s “ hunt the whistle.” 
Takutur. Stuart lake, British Columbia. 
Reverend Father A. G. Morice ¢ says: 
We find the elegantly carved gambling sticks of the West Coast tribes replaced 
by simple polished pieces of lynx or other animal’s bones without any particular 
“Dictionnaire de la Langue Déné-Dindjié, Paris, 1876. 
°A Journey from Prince of Wales’s Fort in Hudson's Bay, to the Northern Ocean, p. 
385, London, 1795. 
¢ Along Alaska’s Great River, p. 227, New York, 1885. 
@Fourth Report on the North-Western Tribes of Canada. Report of the Fifty-Eighth 
Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, p. 246, London, 1889. 
«Notes on the Western Dénés. Transactions of the Canadian Institute, y. 4, p. 77, 
Toronto, 1895, 
