cuLIN] SNOW-SNAKE: OMATIA 419 
Collected in 1900 by the writer, to whom they were designated as 
hutinacute.* 
Manpan. Fort Clark, North Dakota. 
Maximilian, Prince of Wied,’ says: 
The children of the Mandans and Manitaries play with a piece of stag’s horn 
{figure 542], in which a couple of feathers are inserted; this is thrown forward, 
the piece of horn being foremost. 
Fic. 542. Feathered horn dart; Mandan Indians, North Dakota; from Maximilian, Prince of 
Wied. 
Omana. Nebraska. 
Mr Dorsey ¢ describes the following games: 
Ma"¢i"'-bagi, wahi-gasnug’-i¢e (Omaha names), or ma”-ibagi’ (Ponca name) is a 
game played by an even number of boys. The tall sticks of the red willow are 
held in the hand, and when thrown towards the ground so as to strike it at an 
acute angle, they glance off, and are carried by the wind into the air for some 
distance. Whichever one can throw his stick the furthest wins the game, 
but nothing is staked. Man dé-gasnug’-i¢e is a game similar to ma"¢i"’-bagi, but. 
bows are used instead of the red willow sticks, and arrows are staked, there 
being an even number of players on each side. Each bow is unstrung, one end 
being nearly straight, the other end, which is to hit the ground, being slightly 
eurved. When snow is on the ground, the bows glide very far. Sometimes 
the bow rebounds and goes into the air, then alights and glides still further. 
The prize for each winning bow is arranged before each game. If the num- 
ber be two arrows for each and three bows win, six arrows are forfeited by 
the losing side; if four bows win, eight arrows are lost. If three arrows be 
the prize for each, when two bows win, six arrows are forfeited: when three 
win, nine arrows; and so on. 
T"'-ti"bata, a boy’s game among the Omahas, is played in winter. It is played 
by two, three, or four small boys, each haying a stick, not over a yard long, 
shaped like the figure [543]. The stakes are necklaces and earrings; or, if 
they have no stakes, they agree to hit once on the head the boy whose stick goes 
the shortest distance. The sticks are thrown as in ma"¢i"/-bagi. 
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FiG. 543. Game dart; Omaha Indians, Nebraska; from Dorsey. 
Mr Francis La Flesche described a game to the writer under the 
name of “ wahegusungithae,” or bone sliders, in which a bone with a 
*A long stick with a large head which the Dakotas make slide on the snow or ice. 
(Riggs.) Also, hu-ta’-na-ku-te, v. n., to play with the hutina¢ute; to throw a stick so 
as to make it slide along on the snow, hutanawakute. 
>Travels in the Interior of North America, translated by H. Evans Lloyd, p. 358, 
London, 1843. 
© Omaha Sociology. Third Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, p, 340, 1884. 
