CULIN] RING AND PIN: PENOBSCOT 541 
It seems quite impossible to get a t’wis constructed from these wal-dee. The 
Indians will describe such a t'wis and promise faithfully to make one, even 
resenting any insinuations that they are afraid to do so. Their promise, never- 
theless, for whatever reason, remains unfulfilled. 
Passamaquoppy. Pleasant Point, Maine. 
Dr A. S. Gatschet writes from Baddeck, Nova Scotia, August 28, 
1899: 
The evergreen-bough game is unknown among the Micmac of Cape Breton, 
where I am now, but I heard of it at Pleasant Point, Me. It is called tu’tuash 
(plural, tutua’shek). Not only the pine species furnishing the twigs is called 
so, but also the twigs or needles broken off from it to play the game with, and 
also the game itself. ‘The twigs. not over 4 or 5 inches long, are made to dance 
on a table or other level object, and 
a song, tu’tua, is sung while the 
dancing lasts. 
Prnopscor. Kennebunkport, 
Maine. (Cat. no. 
15406, Free Museum 
of Science and Art, ' ] ; 
Fic.711. Artoois: length of cone,8} inches; Pen- 
University of Pennsyl- obscot Indians, Kennebunkport, Maine; cat. 
vania ) no. 15406, Free Museum of Science and Art, 
= University of Pennsylvania. 
Implement for a game (figure 
711), consisting of a pointed stick, 9} inches in length, attached 
by a thong to a cone-shaped object $$ inches in length, made by 
wrapping leaves of Arbor vite with thread. The wrapping 
properly should be of eelskin. 
Collected by Mr Henry C. Mercer, who describes it under the name 
of artoois. 
——— Oldtown, Maine. (Cat. no. 48237, Peabody Museum of Amer- 
ican Archeology 
and Ethnology.) 
Implement for a game 
(figure 712), de- 
scribed by the col- 
lector under the name 
of ahduis, and con- 
sisting of a pointed 
Fic. 712. Ahdu’is; length of cone, 7 inches; Penobscot In- bone about 8 inches 
dians, Oldtown, Maine; cat. no. 48237, Peabody Museum in lengt h. attached 
of American Archeology and Ethnology. | | a eet 
yy a thong Inches 
in length to the tip of a cone-shaped object of moose hair. 7 
inches in length. 
Collected by Mr C. C. Willoughby, who kindly furnished the fol- 
lowing description : 
Ah-du’-is is the lover’s game. This game is played with a very sharp-pointed 
bone, some 8 inches long, and a roll of moose hair somewhat shorter, of conical 
