716 GAMES OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS  [k7TH. ann. 24 
sex seldom play with those of the other. In accordance with the 
original plan I shall dismiss with this mere mention the games played 
without special implements. There is much, however, in them, as 
well as in the Indian toys and playthings, that would repay com- 
parative study, although our information about them is scanty. 
Mr Dorsey says the Teton use sleds of different kinds. Among 
the Oglala the boys coast down hill on a piece of wood or bark like 
a barrel stave, with a rein tied to one end, which they hold, standing 
erect, with one foot advanced and the rein drawn tight for support.? 
Yankton boys have a kind of sled, huhu kazunta, made of rib bones 
lashed together with rags (figure 935). 
Fig. 935. Bone sled; length, 14 inches; Yankton Dakota Indians, Fort Peck, Montana; cat. no. 
37613, Free Museum of Science and Art, University of Pennsylvania. 
I have classified the following amusements, all of which may be 
regarded as games of dexterity, under thirteen different heads, having 
here restricted myself to those of which more than one mention occurs. 
It is difficult to decide from present data whether certain of them may 
not have been borrowed from the whites. Though the Indians gen- 
erally are a conservative people, they have, at the same time, high 
powers of mimicry and imitation. Of this gift the anecdotes of the 
Hopi clowns related by Mr A. M. Stephen in his unpublished manu- 
script afford many interesting illustrations. 
Mr Dorsey describes the skill with which Teton children make play- 
things of clay, copying animal forms with amazing fidelity. Indian 
children in general are given to making pictures, often painting or 
cutting them high up on the rocks. Among other amusements one 
has been noted where they laid pebbles on the ground to form outline 
pictures of various objects. 
“Louis L. Meeker, Ogalala Games. Bulletin of the Free Museum of Science and Art, 
y. 3, p. 35, Philadelphia, 1901. 
