cULIN] TIPCAT: ZUNI {( Ps 
One bets that he can toss the shuttlecock a given number of times. While ten 
is the number specially associated with the game, the wagers are often made 
for twenty, fifty, and sometimes a hundred throws. In case of failure the other 
player tries his skill, each party alternating in the game until one or the other 
tosses the shuttlecock (only one hand being used) the given number of times. 
which entitles him to the game. 
The Zuni claim that this game originated with them. 
Trecat 
The game of tipeat, played with a small billet, usually pointed, 
which is struck with a club, appears to be known in America, at least 
to certain tribes. Hennepin’s account seems to refer to it, and the 
cat made by Mr Cushing is similar to those used by boys in our streets. 
The Zuni game is peculiar in the ball tied to a stick which is used to 
hit the billet. : 
TROQUOIAN STOCK 
Huron. Ontario. 
Father Louis Hennepin ® says: 
The children play with bows and with two sticks, one large and one small. 
They hold the little one in the left and the larger one in the right hand; then 
with the larger they make the smaller one fly up in the air, and another runs 
after it and throws it at the one who sprung it. This game resembles that of 
children in Europe. 
SIOUAN STOCK 
Dakota (Teron). South Dakota. 
Rey. J. Owen Dorsey ” describes the game under the name ichapsil 
echunpi, making the wood jump by hitting it: 
When the boys play this game an imaginary stream is marked off on the 
ground, and the players stand on imaginary ice near the shore. They take turns 
at knocking at a piece of wood, in order to send it up into the air. He who 
fails to send up the piece of wood loses his stakes, and he who succeeds wins the 
Stakes. 
ZUNIAN STOCK 
Zuni. Zuni, New Mexico. (Cat. no. 16309, Free Museum of Science 
and Art, University of Pennsylvania.) 
Small double-pointed billet (figure 944), 2% iches in length, with 
a bat, consisting of a small bag-shaped buckskin ball (figure 
945), attached to the end of a handle made of a small twig. 
19 inches in length—a model made by Mr Cushing, who describes 
it as known in Zuni as the jumping-toad game. 
“A Description of Louisiana, p. 308, New York, 1880. 
*Games of Teton Dakota Children. The American Anthropologist, v. 4, p. 341, 1891. 
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