cuLIN] RING AND PIN: NASCAPEE 539 
Monraenais. Labrador. 
Henry Youle Hind ¢ writes as follows: 
One evening during our return I observed Michel, who was always doing 
something when in camp, making some little disks of wood, with a hole in each, 
and stringing them on a piece of leather; he attached a thin strip of wood to 
the end of the string, and, with Louis, was soon engaged in a game similar to 
our Cup and Ball. Upon enquiry I found 
that the game was common among his people, 
and was frequently played by them at their 
lodges. 
According to his description, the apparatus is made in ex- 
actly the same manner as the Nah-bah-wah-tah of the Ojib- 
ways, or the game of bones (the Nah-bah-wah-gun-nuk). The 
Nah-bah-wah-gun-nuk, or instrument with which the game is 
played, is constructed in the following manner :— 
The bones are made from the hoof of the deer, or caribou, 
and made to fit one within the other to the number of twelve. 
the one nearest to the hand when the instrument is held for 
play being the largest. A hole is bored through the center of 
each, and the bones are strung upon sinew or a short deer-skin 
thong; at one 
end of the 
thong a _ bone 
needle or skew- 
er is attached, 
and at the 
other extrem- 
ity a piece of 
leather, 4 
inches long 
and 1? wide, 
cut into the 
shape of an 
Fic. 709. Cup and pin; length of implement, 14} inches; Nascapee Indians, oval. Small 
Labrador; cat. no. 3214, United States National Museum; from Turner. 
holes are made 
in the piece of leather, which is called the tail, and four holes are drilled into 
the last ‘bone... The thong is weighted with a piece of lead close to the tail, 
the last bone slipping over it. The players agree upon the stakes, which are 
placed before them in the lodge, and one of them takes the bones and begins 
to play. His object is to catch as many as he can on the needle or skewér in 
a certain number of trials; the last bone, if caught singly in one of the holes 
drilled in it, counts the highest; if the tail is caught it also counts next to the 
last bone. 
The other bones count 1 each, and a skillful player will sometimes catch 8 or 
10 at one throw. 
Nascarer. Ungava, Labrador. (Cat. no. 3214, United States Na- 
tional Museum. ) 
Five cones of polished bone (figure 709), made of phalangeal bones, 
strung on a thong, with the tail of some small animal fastened 
«Explorations in the Interior of the Labrador Peninsula, v. 1, p. 277, London, 1863. 
