cULIN] SNOW-SNAKE: SAUK AND FOXES 407 
When a man wanted to play this game he took a number of his su-ha sticks 
and went through the village calling “su ha! su ha!” One or, more of the 
players would take a boy by the feet and drag him down some incline, thus 
making a track, or path, in the snow. Down this path each player in turn, 
calling out “su ha!” threw one of his sticks, as a spear is thrown. To mark 
the distance this stick was stuck up in the snow beside the path, opposite the 
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Fic. 523 a,b,c. Snow-snakes; lengths, 21, 18,and 14} inches; Penobscot Indians, Oldtown, Maine; 
cat. no. 48233 to 48235, Peabody Museum of American Archeology and Ethnology. 
place where it stopped. When all the sticks had been thrown, they became the 
property of the man whose stick had covered the greatest distance. He would 
gather them all up and selecting such as he wanted, calling out at the same 
time “su ha!” throw the others up in the air, and they became the property 
of those strong and quick enough to secure them. This game has not been 
played since 1842. 
Saux anp Foxes. Iowa. (Cat. no. »$%;, American Museum of 
; Natural History.) 
Slender stick of hard wood (figure 524),254 inches in length, with 
an egg-shaped end hardened by fire. 
Collected by Dr William Jones, who describes it as snow-snake. 
Prof. Frederick Starr informed the writer that it was swung by the 
small end to give it impetus. 
Fic. 524. Snow-snake; length, 25} inches; Sauk and Fox Indians, Iowa; cat. no. 3§§;, American 
Museum of Natural History. 
Towa. (American Museum of Natural History.) 
Cat. no. 3295. Three pointed sumac sticks, 46 to 52 inches in length. 
Collected by Dr William Jones, who gives the name as shoskwihani, 
sliders. 
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Fig. 525. Snow-snakes; length, 30 inches; Sauk and Fox Indians, Iowa; cat. no. $32, American 
Museum of Natural History. 
Cat. no. =8%;. Two narrow, flat sticks (figure 525), rounded on the 
upper side, 30 inches in length; one burned black for the entire 
length on the upper side, the other burned only at the head. 
Collected by Dr William Jones, who gives the name as manetowagi, 
snakes. 
