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the palm downward. If one or more of the sticks fall to the ground it is a miss 
and the next player tries. Every time a player succeeds in catching all of the 
falling sticks, he lays aside one of them as a counter until all are gone, when 
each player counts up, and the one holding the greatest number is the winner. 
These squared splints are similar to those used as markers in the first game 
described [a game of dart throwing, see page 387]. Small stakes are sometimes 
played for in this game, as in the first. 
The bunch of slender splints already described are also used to play a game 
exactly like jackstraws. The player grasps the bunch of sticks between the 
thumb and forefinger of the right hand, resting one end upon the floor; then he 
suddenly releases them and they fall in a small heap. The players have a 
small wooden hook, and each in succession removes as many of the sticks as he 
can without moving any but the one taken. Each player keeps those he suc- 
ceeds in removing, and the one holding the largest number at the end is the 
winner. Both men and women play this game, but usually not together. 
SKITTAGETAN STOCK 
Hara. Prince of Wales island, Alaska. 
Dr C. F. Newcombe says these Indians have the cheese-straw game 
(jackstraws) which they call hlketosgan, and play precisely like the 
European game. : 
SWING 
Only four notices of the swing occur, one of which appears to 
refer to a late and civilized form. 
ALGONQUIAN STOCK 
Arapano. Wyoming. 
Dr A. L. Kroeber“ relates a flood myth in which Crow-woman, the 
wife of a man, urges a girl named River-woman, whom her husband 
has taken as a new wife, to go with her to a swing which she had hung 
on a tree that leaned over a pool in the river. After refusing three 
times, the girl went and swung, when the rope broke and she fell into 
the pool and was drowned. 
CADDOAN STOCK 
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Pawnee (Skint). Oklahoma. 
In the story of “ Coyote Rescues a Maiden,” Dr George A. Dorsey ” 
refers to the girl who had the power of attracting buffalo through 
being swung by her brothers.¢ 
Wientra. Oklahoma. 
Dr Albert S. Gatschet communicated to me the following name for 
the swing of children: neeniku’yassash. 
« Traditions of the Arapaho, p. 11, Chicago, 1903. 
> Traditions of the Skidi Pawnee, p. 254, Boston and New York, 1904. 
©The same story is found among the Caddo. Traditions of the Caddo, p. 51, Washing- 
ton, 1905. 
