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Detawares. Ontario. 
Dr Daniel G. Brinton“ gives an account of the following game as 
deseribed to him by Rey. Albert Seqaqkind Anthony: 
Qua’quallis. In this a hollow bone is attached by a string to a pointed stick. 
The stick is held in the hand, and the bone is thrown up by a rapid movement, 
and the game is to catch the bone, while in motion, on the pointed end of the 
stick. It was a gambling game, often played by adults. 
GrosventrES. Fort Belknap reservation, Montana. (Cat. no. 36566, 
Free Museum of Science and Art, University of Pennsyl- 
vanila. ) 
Four phalangeal bones, perforated at top and bottom, strung on a 
thong with five loops of colored beads at one end and a brass 
needle at the other (figure 706). The bones are marked on one 
side with ten, nine, eight, and seven notches; length, 124 inches. 
Collected by Dr George A. Dorsey, who describes the game as fol- 
lows, under the name of tsaitkusha: 
A game and favorite pastime among young men and women, and so often 
ealled the matrimonial game. The object of the game is to catch on the point 
of the long bodkin one or more of the bone cups made from the toe bones of 
FiG.706. Tsaitkusha; length of implement, 22 inches; Grosventre Indians, Fort Belknap reserva- 
tion, Montana; cat. no. 36566, Free Museum of Science and Art, University of Pennsylvania. 
deer; or, failing in this, one or more of the loops of beaded thread. Each cup 
is marked on one side with incised parallel lines; these determine its value and 
so the count on each cup caught, each loop also counting 1. The number of 
eups and loops varies in different specimens, four being the most common 
number. 
Fort Belknap reservation, Montana. (Cat. no. 60278, 60286, 
60351, Field Columbian Museum.) 
Four phalangeal bones, perforated at both ends and having dotted 
incisions in the middle, strung on a thong with a needle at one 
end and a loop of colored glass beads at the other. 
Three phalangeal bones, similar to the above, but with transverse 
notches instead of holes. 
' Four phalangeal bones, similar to the above. 
These were collected by Dr George A. Dorsey in 1900. 
“ Folk-lore of the Modern Lenape. Essays of an Americanist, p. 186, Philadelphia, 1896. 
