cuLIn] JACKSTRAWS: ESKIMO 729 
The latter is marked on one side in ink with eyes and mouth 
simulating a human face. An iron ball, about three-fourths of 
an inch in diameter, accompanies these specimens. 
These objects were collected by the writer in 1900. They were 
made by Black Chicken. The game, umpapi, is played on the ice 
exclusively by women. The 
cylinders are set up and struck 
with the stone, ihe, or with the 
bullet, which is shoved with 
the hand. 
Hiparsa. Fort Atkinson, North 
Fic. 955. Implements for umpapi; length of cyl- 
Dakota. inders, 1} inches; Yankton Dakota Indians, 
Henry A. Boller®@ says: Fort Peck, Montana; cat. no, 37611, Free 
om f riba Museum of Science and Art, University of 
_ The mania for gambling was by Pennsylvania. 
no means confined to the men. The 
women and young girls were equally imbued with it; and, sitting down on a 
smooth place oa the ice, they would roll a pebble from one to the other for 
hours together. Young infants were often kept on the ice all the while, their 
mothers, or those who had them in charge, being too much engrossed with their 
play to pay them any attention. 
J ACKSTRAWS 
The game of jackstraws would seem a natural and logical develop- 
ment from the game of stick-counting. The only intimations the 
writer has had of it in America are among the Eskimo and the Haida. 
The first of the two games described by Mr Nelson is somewhat like 
our game of jackstones; the second is identical with our jackstraws. 
SSKIMAUAN STOCK 
Esximo (Western). St Michael, Alaska. (Cat. no. 178970, United 
States National Museum.) 
3undle of 109 small squared pine 
splints (figure 956), 44 inches in 
length. 
Collected by Mr E. W. Nelson, who 
describes the game played with them 
Fic. 956. Jackstraws; length, 4} inches; 4 : 
Western Eskimo, St Michael, Alaska; &5 follows: ” 
eat. no. 178970, United States National 
Pinecone A bundle of from 50 to 75 small, squared, 
wooden splints, about 4 inches long and a 
little larger than a match, are placed in a small pile crosswise on the back of 
the player’s outstretched right hand. The player then removes his hand quickly 
and tries to grasp the falling sticks between his thumb and fingers, still keeping 
«Among the Indians: Hight years in the Far West, 1858-1866, p. 197, Philadelphia, 
1868. 
+The Eskimo about Bering Strait. Wighteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Amer- 
ican Ethnology, pt. 1, p. 332, 1899. 
