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a song upon the occasion, priding themselves not a little with the defeat of 
their opponents, who at length join in the laugh against themselves, and all are 
friends again, without any offense (seemingly) being either given or taken. 
Porawatomi. Jansas. 
Mr Wells M. Sawyer communicated to me the following account 
secured by him from an Indian interpreter: 
Ta-te-wan (gambling). Four players, A, B and C, D, each with a bow and 
two arrows, play partners. Two strips of bark about 4 inches wide are placed 
in piles of earth shaped up like a little grave, the mounds being about 200 feet 
apart. One player of each side takes his place near each mound, A, C and B, D. 
The arrows of A, C are shot toward the target B, D. If A strikes near the 
target, but misses with both arrows, and C fails to strike nearer than A, the 
latter counts 1. If either of C’s arrows come nearer than A’s, C scores 1. If 
either hits the target, he scores 5, and if both arrows of.A or C hit, the game 
is won (10 being out). If both A and C hit the target, neither counts. The 
arrows are returned by B, D. 
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Apacue (Curricanua). Arizona. 
Mr E. W. Davis communicated to the writer the following account 
of a game played by Geronimo’s band at St Augustine, Florida, 
in 1889: 
The game which interested me most, and one which required considerable 
skill, consisted in tossing arrows, point first, at a mark about 10 feet away. 
As I recollect, the first man to throw his arrow was required to land on the 
mark. If he did so, he got his arrow back. His first throw was his misfor- 
tune, and the best he could do was to lose. He had no chance to win, Once an 
arrow in the field, however, the object of the next player was to toss his arrow 
so that it should cross the first thrown, and so on through the crowd. I have 
seen as many as six play, and often all would toss around without any one 
winning. In this case the arrows on the ground remained in the pot, so to 
speak. The play went on, each player winning as many arrows as he could 
succeed in crossing with his own, until the whole number were removed. 
Curerwyan. Fort Prince of Wales, Keewatin. 
Samuel Hearne? says: 
They have but few diversions; the chief is shooting at a mark with bow and 
arrows; and another outdoor game called Holl, which in some measure resem- 
bles playing with quoits: only it is done with short clubs, sharp at one end. 
Navano. St Michael, Arizona. ; 
Rey. Berard Haile describes the following game in a letter of June 
27, 1902: 
Sa-si” old6 (he shoots the yucca). Bayonet-shaped yucca leaves are placed 
in hot ashes to make them flexible and moist. Strings of them are then made 
and wound around bark or something similarly soft. A string of buckskin is 
«A Journey from Prince of Wales's Fort in Hudson's Bay to the Northern Ocean, p. 333, 
London, 1795. 
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