5388 GAMES OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS [pra ann. 24 
Missisauca. New Credit, Ontario. (Cat. no. 178387, United States 
National Museum. ) 
Rev. Peter Jones“ figures a game similar to cup and ball. The 
actual specimen (figure 707) exists in the United States National 
Museum, and consists of nine phalan- 
geal bones strung on a thong with a 
wooden pin. 
— Rice lake, Ontario. 
G. Copway ” says: 
The “ Tossing Play” is a game seldom seen 
FIGHTIN WeNalecicea|pons: Ueame: among the WES iis played in the wig- 
length, 16} inches; Missisauga Indi- wam. There is used in it an oblong knot, 
ans, Ontario; cat. no. 178387, United made of cedar boughs, of length, say about 7 
+ States National Museum. inches. On the top is fastened a string, about 
15 inches long, by which the knot is swung. 
On the other end of this string is another stick, 2} inches long, and sharply 
pointed. This is held in the hand, and if the player can hit the large stick 
every time it falls on the sharp one he wins. ‘“ Bone play” is another indoor 
amusement, so calléd because the articles used are made of the hoof-joint bones 
of the deer. The ends are hollowed out, and from three to ten are strung to- 
gether. In playing it they use the same kind of sharp stick, the end of which 
is thrown into the bones. 
Monracnats. Lake St John, Quebec. (Peabody Museum of Amer- 
ican Archeology and Ethnology. ) 
Cat. no. 62326. String of eight large worked phalangeal bones, 
strung on twine, with a bone pin at one end and a wild-cat tail 
tied at the other; length, 204 inches. 
Fig. 708. Cup-and-pin game; length of implement, 26} inches; Montagnais Indians, Quebec; cat. 
no, 62327, Peabody Museum of American Archeology and Ethnology. 
Cat. no. 62327. String of phalangeal bones (figure 708), similar to 
the above, but strung on a thong and having a rabbit-skin roll 
tied at one end; length, 264 inches. The top bone has four 
holes near its upper edge. Both collected by Mr Archibald 
Tisdale about 1892. 
« History of the Ojebway Indians, fig. 7, pl. facing p. 135, London, 1861. 
>The Traditional History and Characteristic Sketches of the Ojibway Nation, p. 55, 
Boston, 1851. 
