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at one end and a bone pin at the other. Collected by Mr Lucien 
Turner, who says: ¢ 
They also have a game corresponding to “ cup and bali,” but it is played with 
different implements from what the Hskimo use. . . . The hollow cones are 
made from the terminal phalanges of the reindeer’s foot. The tail tied to the 
end of the thong is that of a marten or a mink. The player holds the peg in 
one hand, and tossing up the bones tries to catch the nearest bone on the point 
of the peg.. The object of the game is to catch the bone the greatest possible 
number of times. It is in no sense a gambling game 
Nirissine. Forty miles above Montreal, Quebec. 
J. A. Cuoq”® gives the following definition : 
Pipindjikaneigan, toy, sort of cup and ball, made of several dew-claws of the 
roebuck strung on a small cord to the end of which is fastened a pointed piece 
of wood with which they try to catch the dew-claws thrown in the air. 
PassamMaquoppy. Maine. 
Mrs W. W. Brown ° describes the following game (figure 710) : 
T’wis. This, which is aiso an indoor game, is at present oftenest played for 
amusement. The twis is composed of an oblong piece of moose hide, about 4 
inches in length, punctured with small holes, the center one being slightly larger 
than the others. This piece of hide is joined to a bundle of cedar (arbor vitee) 
Fic. 710. T’wis; Passamaquoddy Indians, Maine; from Mrs W. W. Brown. 
boughs, tightly wound round with cord. To this, by about G inches %f string, 
is attached a sharp-pointed stick, tied near the center and held between the 
thumb and finger like a pen-handle. The game consists in giving the moose- 
hide a peculiar upward toss and at the same time piercing one of the holes with 
the point of the stick. The number of points necessary for winning is usually 
set at 100. Pach player can hold the t’wis until he misses a point. 
Another kind of t’wis was made of several pieces of bone strung loosely 
together, each having a certain value, and being counted by catching on the 
point of the stick, similarly to the holes in the moose hide. 
There is a tradition that the first t'wis-ak were made from that peculiar 
fungus which grows out from the bark of trees and is known to the Indians 
as wa-be-la-wen, or squaw-oc-l’moos-wal-dee—that is, “the swamp woman’s 
dishes.” (Squaw-oc-moos is the béte noire of the Indian legends, and even now 
children will not play with toadstools through the fear of the swamp woman.) 
“ One night,” so the story runs, ‘“ during a very important game of t’wis, on which 
everything available had been wagered, both contestants fell asleep. The one 
having the t’wis was carried by Med-o-lin many miles into a swamp. When 
he awoke he saw Squaw-oc-moos eating out of the dishes and a t’wis made of 
boughs in his hands.” 
a Ethnology of the Ungaya District, Hudson Bay Territory. Eleventh Annual Report 
of the Bureau of Ethnology, p. 323, 1894. 
>» Lexique de la Langue Algonquine, Montreal, 1886. 
¢Some Indoor and Outdoor Games of the Wabanaki Indians. ‘Transactions of the 
Royal Society of Canada, v. 6, sec. 2, p. 48, Montreal, 1889. 
