ccLin] CAT’S CRADLE: THOMPSON INDIANS 773 
Suuswar. Kamloops, British Columbia. 
Dr Franz Boas says: 
Children and women play cat’s cradle. 
Sxoxomisu. British Columbia. 
Mr Charles Hill-Tout” says these Indians were acquainted with 
qauwilts, or the cat’s cradle game. 
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Fig. 1059. Cat’s cradle, sawing wood; Maya Indians, Yucatan; cat. no. 2814, Brooklyn Institute 
Museum. 
SonetsH. British Columbia. 
Dr Franz Boas ° says: 
Hawaua'latcis, the game of cat’s cradle.—A great variety of figures are made. 
Only one person is required to make these figures. Sometimes the teeth must 
help in making them. 
Tuomeson Iypians (Ntlakyapamuk). British Columbia. 
Mr James Teit ? says: 
Many children’s games were played by the smaller boys and girls. ‘ Cat’s 
eradle”’ was one of these [figure 1060]. Strings were fixed on the fingers in 
@ Second General Report on the Indians of British Columbia. Report of the Sixtieth 
Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, p. 641, London, 1891. 
»Notes on the Sk’qd’mic of British Columbia. Report of the Seventieth Meeting of 
the British Association for the Advancement of Science, p. 488, London, 1900. 
© Second General Report on the Indians of British Columbia. Report of the Sixtieth 
Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, p. 571, London, 1891- 
¢The Thompson Indians of British Columbia. Memoirs of the American Museum of 
Natural History, whole series, v. 2, p. 281, New York, 1900. 
