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habits. There will be twenty sitting down and as many standing round, intent 
upon the progress of the game, which is carried on in silence, except on the part 
of the hider. 
Another game of chance, and perhaps the only other after cards, and the 
one just described, is the pahgehsehwog or pan-play, which consists in guessing 
at any thing, or number of things, enclosed between two pans. 
Curprrewa. Turtle mountain, North Dakota. (Cat. no. zoos, Amer- 
ican Museum of Natural History.) 
Implements for moccasin game (figure 454): Four black-cloth pads, 
8 inches wide, with edges bound with red; eleven counting sticks 
(saplings), painted 
SSS red, 18 inches long, 
and a striking stick 
(a slender rod), 
= painted red, 36 inches 
in length. 
These were collected in 
1903 by Dr William 
Jones, who gives the name 
Fig. 454. Moccasin game; pads, counters, and striking as makesenatatiwenl, or 
stick; width of pads, 8 inches; length of counters, 18 as 
inches; length of striking stick. 36 inches; Chippewa moccasin game. 
Indians, Turtle mountain, North Dakota; cat. no. 75%;, 
American Museum of Natural History. 
The game is played with 
three beads and a bullet, the 
bullet being trump. Hither moccasins or the pads are used. 
Cres. Muskowpetung reserve, Qu’appelle, Assiniboia. (Cat. no. 
61996, Field Columbian Museum.) 
A small tinned iron ring, three-fourths of an inch in diameter, used 
in the moccasin game, which is described as follows by the col- 
lector, Mr J. A. Mitchell, under the name of muskisinastahtowin, 
concealing an object in a moccasin: 
This game is conspicuously a gambling game, and is quite similar to the 
sleight-of-hand games of the whites. The objects are concealed either together 
under one of four inverted moccasins or separately under two moccasins, all 
being placed in a line before the manipulator, who passes his hands under each 
moccasin in order to confuse the opponents. If the pieces are placed apart 
from each other under separate moccasins, the player making the guess has the 
right to another guess should he find one of the pieces at his first guess. Failure 
at first guess counts him out, and the play goes to the next player. 
Detawares. Indiana. 
IT am informed by Mr George S. Cottman, of Irvington, Indiana, 
that the following is drawn from two articles in a local newspaper, 
the principal of which was by Robert Duncan, “ one of our earliest 
pioneers, now dead ”: 
Moceasin was a gambling game much practised among the Delaware Indians, 
and was borrowed of them by the white settlers. As originally played, a deer 
« Indianapolis News, July 22, 24, 1879. 
