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at his third attempt, the challenging party scores a count and again repeats 
the concealment. The concealing, or challenging, side continue to sing vigor- 
ously as long as they continue to gain, ceasing only when they lose, when the 
other side takes up the songs. ‘These are very numerous and of special interest, 
as they are wholly of a mythologic character. 
SIOUAN STOCK 
Daxora (Ocrata). Pine Ridge reservation, South Dakota. (Cat. 
no. 22114 to 22116, Free Museum of Science and Art, Uni- 
versity of Pennsylvania.) 
A piece of shaved horn (figure 483), nearly round, three-eighths of 
an inch in diameter and 1% inches in length; two sharpened 
sticks of cedar (figure 484), one light and one dark, 8} inches 
in length; bundle of twelve counting sticks (figure 485), cuwin- 
yawa, peeled saplings, painted red, 15 inches in length. 
Fig. 485. 
Fia. 483. Hiding horn for moccasin game; length, 17 inches; Oglala Dakota Indians, Pine Ridge 
reservation, South Dakota; cat. no. 22114, Free Museum of Science and-Art, University of 
Pennsylvania. 
Fic. 484. Pointing sticks for moccasin game; length, 8} inches; Oglala Dakota Indians, Pine 
Ridge reservation, South Dakota; cat. no. 22115, Free Museum of Science and Art, University 
of Pennsylvania. 
Fig. 485. Counting sticks for moccasin game; length, 15 inches; Oglala Dakota Indians, Pine 
Ridge reservation, South Dakota; cat. no. 22116, Free Museum of Science and Art, University 
of Pennsylvania. 
These objects are described by the collector, Mr Louis L. Meeker, 
as implements used in the guessing game, hanpapecu, i. e., moccasin 
game: 
A small bit of horn [figure 483] is concealed in one or the other of one 
player’s hands, and the other player guesses which hand; or the same object 
is concealed in one of two, three, or four moccasins, and the other player 
guesses which one contains the horn. Should he have doubts, he can draw the 
game by guessing which does not contain it, and guess on the remaining two 
for a chance for the next play. 
Two sharpened sticks of cedar, cuwinyawa [figure 484], one of the light 
Sapwood, the other of dark heartwood, are held by the guesser, though but one 
is his. If he uses his own to pull a moccasin toward him, he means that the 
object concealed is in it. If he uses his partner’s stick he pushes the object 
¢Ogalala Games. Bulletin of the Free Museum cf Science and Art, v. 3, p. 29, Phila- 
delphia, 1901. 
