cUuLIN] SNOW-SNAKE: HURON 409 
ATHAPASCAN STOCK 
Taxutir. Stuart lake, British Columbia. 
Reverend Father A. G. Morice“ describes a game called totquh: 
A rod [figure 528] 5 or G feet long . . . is thrown through the air so as to 
fall as far as possible from the initial point of launching, the distance reached 
determining the measure of success attained. This game . . . is now obso- 
lescent. 
A great rival is nozez, which is played with sticks of almost the same shape 
[figure 529], though much stouter near their fore end. As they do duty on the 
frozen surface of the snow, the finest polish possible is aimed at in their prep- 
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Fig. 528. Game dart (tetquh); Takulli Indians, Stuart lake, British Columbia; from Morice. 
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Fig. 529. Snow-snake (nozoz); Takulli Indians, Stuart lake, British Columbia; from Morice. 
aration. These sticks vary in length from 38 to 6 or 7 feet, according to the 
strength, possessed or assumed, of the player. The Carriers are to-day pas- 
sionately fond of this game, which is played, as a rule, by adverse bands, the 
stake going over to the party which first attains the fixed number of points. 
CADDOAN STOCK 
Pawnee. Oklahoma. 
Dr George A. Dorsey ° says: 
In former times, a game was in vogue among, the boys somewhat similar to 
the so-called “ snow-snake,” common in thé central region of the United States. 
The prize in this game was the javelin itself; and when an individual had won 
a sufficient number of these long willow javelins they were made up into a 
mat for him by his grandmother. 
IROQUOIAN STOCK 
Huron. Ontario. 
Bacqueville de la Potherie “ says: 
Girls play with spindles (fuseaux), which they shove beneath a small piece 
of wood raised above the ground. The game is to push the spindle the farthest. 
There are games for the winter and games for the summer. Those for all 
seasons are fruit stones and straws; those for winter are spindles for children. 
The boys add a tail two feet and a half long to the latter, while the girls 
use actual spindles. They moisten them with saliva or put them in freeziig 
water, so that they are covered with a slippery coat, and then they push them 
down the slope of a frozen hill that they may go far. They also use for this 
purpose long, flat sticks. They paint both the spindles and the sticks. 
“Notes on the Western Dénés. Transactions of the Canadian Institute, vy. 4, p. 112, 
Toronto, 1895. 
>See also The Western Dénés. Proceedings of the Canadian Institute, 3d ser., vy. 7, p. 154, 
Toronto, 1889. : 
© Traditions of the Skidi Pawnee, p. xvi, New York, 1904. 
4 Histoire de l’Amérique Septentrionale, v. 3, p. 238, Paris, 1753. 
