536 GAMES OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS [BTH. ANN. 24 
Eight phalangeal bones strung on a thong, with a wire needle, 54 
inches long at one end, and a flap of buckskin, perforated with 
holes, with a large hole in the center, at the other (figure 704). 
The bone nearest the flap is stained green and has its upper edge 
serrated. The other bones are plain. 
These were collected by Mr J. A. Mitchell, who furnished the fol- 
lowing account of the game, under the name of napahwhan : 
Played by either men or women, there being no limit to the number of players. 
The bodkin is held in either hand, the buckskin appendage being held in the 
opposite hand against the elbow with the needle pointed upward. The whole 
Fic. 704. Napahwhan; total length, 24 inches; Cree Indians, Assiniboia; cat. no. 61993, Field 
Columbian Museum. 
string is then swung outward and upward, the object being to catch one or the 
whole of the cups as they descend, on the point of the needle, or failing in this, 
to cause the needle to pass through one or more of the holes in the leather tag. 
Of the cups, each counts 2, except the blue-green one, which is called the 
squay-chagan, last-born child; it scores game and takes all the stakes. The 
holes in the tag have special values according to position, and combinations of 
these holes also have certain counting values. 
The game is one valued very highly by the Indians and one which they are 
more loath to part with than with most others. 
Fic. 705. Teheapi: length of stick, 9} inches; Cree Indians, Wind River reservation, Wyoming; 
eat. no. 37029, Free Museum of Science and Art, University of Pennsylvania. 
Cres. Wind River reservation, Wyoming. (Cat. no. 37029, Free 
Museum of Science and Art, University of Pennsylvania. ) 
Disk of rawhide, 3} inches in diameter, painted yellow and_per- 
forated with holes, attached by a thong to a pointed stick, 94 
inches in length (figure 705). 
Collected by the writer in 1900 from an Indian of Riel’s band, who 
gave the name as teheapi: 
Played indiscriminately by both sexes as a gambling game. The middle hole 
counts 10 and the others 2. 
