cULIN] SNOW-SNAKE: CHIPPEWA 401 
Collected by Rev. H. R. Voth in 1890, who gave the following in- 
formation : 
The points are of buffalo horn and are employed as points for sticks from 4 to 
6 feet long. The arrows thus formed are used in a game in which a number of 
girls shoot or hurl the darts along the road or other smooth ground. The object 
of the contest is to determine who can make the dart go farthest. 
CHEYENNE. Cheyenne reservation, Montana. (Field Columbian 
Museum.) 
Cat. no. 69985. Javelin, with conical bone head, 5 inches in length, 
and wooden shaft painted blue; total length, 66 inches. 
This was collected in 1901 by Mr. 8. C. Simms, who describes it as 
used in a woman’s game, played on the ice or hard crust of snow and 
called majestum. 
Cat. no. 69984. Arrow tipped with a conical bone point, 4 inches in 
length, with wooden shaft, painted yellow, and having feathers 
tied at the end; total length, 274 inches. 
This was collected in 1901 by Mr S. C. Simms, who describes it as 
used in a man’s game. 
The stick is seized by one end, whirled rapidly around with a vertical mo- 
tion, and released when it gains momentum. The object is to make it go as 
far as possible. 
Cuierewa. Apostle islands, Wisconsin. 
J. G. Kohl ¢ says: 
The Indians are also said to have many capital games on the ice, and I had 
the opportunity, at any rate, to inspect the instruments employed in them, 
which they called shoshiman (slipping sticks). These are elegantly carved and 
prepared; at the end they are slightly bent, like the iron of a skate, and form 
a heavy knob, while gradually tapering down in the handle. They cast these 
sticks with considerable skill over the smooth ice. In order to give them 
greater impulsion, a small, gently rising incline of frozen snow is formed on 
the ice, over which the gliding sticks bound. In this way they gain greater 
impetus, and dart from the edge of the snow mound like arrows, 
Wisconsin. 
Prof. I. I. Ducatel ” says: 
They have their shosehman, or snow stick, about the length of a common 
walking cane, cut out in the shape of a sledge, which they cause to slide over 
the snow or ice. 
Mille Lacs, Minnesota. (Cat. no. 204597, United States Na- 
tional Museum. ) 
A wooden club, 264 inches in length, flat on one side and round on 
the reverse, one end wedge-shaped, with its upper face burned 
and marked with incised lines painted red and yellow, as shown 
in figure 513. Collected by Mr G. H. Beaulieu. 
* Kitchi-Gami, Wanderings round Lake Superior, p. 90, London, 1860. 
°A Fortnight among the Chippewas. The Indian Miscellany, p. 368, Albany, 1877. 
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