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Another set (cat. no. 36982) in the same collection has three bones, 
each with eight lateral perforations. One bone has seven 
notches, another two, while the third is plain. Seven beaded 
loops and a similar brass ring are attached at the end opposite 
the needle. 
Still another set (cat. no. 36983) has four bones, not perforated lat- 
erally, with two, three, four, and five transverse cuts, and three 
antelope hoofs at the end opposite the needle. 
All these are implements for the game of chetguetat. Collected 
by the writer in 1900. 
CuHeyenne. Oklahoma: (Cat. no. 178338, United States National 
Museum. ) 
Four phalangeal bones of the deer, perforated, and pierced with lat- 
eral perforations and marked with one, two, three, and four 
scratches; strung on a beaded cord with an iron needle attached, 
and having eight loops of red glass beads on the end opposite the 
needle. 
These specimens were collected by Mr Louis L. Meeker, when 
teacher of manual training in the Cheyenne school, Darlington, Okla- 
homa, who furnished the following particulars concerning it in a 
communication on Cheyenne Games made to the United States Bu- 
reau of American Ethnology : 
The ni-to-nis-dot or thrusting game of the Cheyenne is played with the four 
phalangeal bones from the fore or the hind feet of a deer. Sometimes two of 
the bones are from a fore foot and two from a hind foot, but this seems to be 
only when a new set is made of two old ones, part of which are broken. 
Bach bone is pierced with four rows of holes, four in a row, about equal 
distances apart, each row being on one of the faces of a bone, for the bones are 
somewhat quadrangular. 4 
There is a small loop, called an earring, he-wus’-sis, attached on either side 
of one end of each bone by putting the cord of which it is made through one 
of the holes or through very small holes nearer the edge and pierced for that 
purpose. 
Thus prepared, the four bones are strung like beads on a buckskin string or 
on a strand of beads strung on sinews. The larger end of each bone is toward 
the same end of the string, to which is attached a needle or piece of wire about 
6 inches long, one end of which is coiled to make an eye to which the string is 
fastened. It is generally understood that originally this needle, or bodkin, was 
of bone and was used for piercing deerskin to sew it with sinews. Large thorns 
were also used. 
The end of the string or strand of beads opposite that to which the needle is 
attached is composed of a bunch of loops, made, like the earings, of sinews, 
generally, if not always, strung with beads. The number of loops vary, so 
that the bunch may be sufficiently large to prevent the bones from slipping off. 
Perhaps ten loops is the proper number. 
In the illustration Hi’-o-ni’-va, ‘Pipe woman,” a camp Indian, is seated on 
a Government blanket with the game in her hand, ready to throw [figure 696]. 
The needle is held in the right hand, almost pen-fashion, but against the 
