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They are played on the ice or frozen ground by men, and are thrown with a 
wrist movement, flat side down, so that they glide along for a great distance. 
Cat. no. 3305, 3225. Two sets of sticks, one of each white and the 
other black, one (figure 526a) having an ovate head, 31 inches in 
length, and the other (figure 5266) a conical head, 334 inches in 
length. 
These were collected by Dr William Jones, who gives the name of 
both as miskwapi and states that they are played on the frozen 
ground or on the ice. 
In throwing they are whirled around the head, and when played on the 
ground are made to glance from an incline. 
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Fic. 526 a,b. Snow-snakes; lengths, 31 and 334 inches; Sauk and Fox Indians, Iowa; cat.no. 48%, 
3280, American Museum of Natural History. 
Sauk anp Foxes. Iowa. (Cat. no. 2%;, American Museum of 
Natural History.) 
Two darts (figure 527), 26 inches long, with flat wooden heads, one 
painted blue and the other plain, with a stick 244 inches long, 
having a bark cord attached with which the darts are slung. 
Collected by Dr William Jones. 
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Fic. 527 a,b. Slinging-dartsand stick; length of darts, 26 inches; length of stick, 244 inches; Sauk 
and Fox Indians, Iowa; cat. no. 33, American Museum of Natural History. 
A summer game. The one whose dart goes farthest wins. The game is called 
naneskwapuchuweni, and the darts naneskwapuchi. 
Tama, Iowa. (Cat. no. 36756, Free Museum of Science and 
Art, University of Pennsylvania.) 
Two peeled saplings of box elder, 664 inches in length. 
These were collected by the writer in 1900, and described to him as 
javelins for a game under the name of maskwapihok. 
