UNCLASSIFIED GAMES 
Into this category of unclassified games, arranged by stocks, have 
been put the miscellaneous games of which but a single record exists, 
and which, with the information now at hand, can not be assigned toa 
place in any of the preceding series, nor yet regarded as of foreign 
origin. It will be seen that these games are few in number and of 
little apparent significance. One, the Clatsop game described by 
Lewis and Clark, may be the guessing game played with wooden 
disks, imperfectly described. 
ALGONQUIAN STOCK 
Inurors. I] linois. 
Joutel says: “ 
A good number of presents still remaining, they divide themselves into sey- 
eral lots, and play at a game, called of the stick, to give them to the winner. 
That game is played, taking a stout stick, very smooth and greased, that it may 
be harder to hold it fast. One of the elders throws the stick as far as he can; 
the young men run after it, snatch it from each other, and at last he who 
remains possessed of it has the first lot. The stick is then thrown again; he 
who keeps it then has the second lot, and so on to the end. The women whose 
«husbands have been slain in war often perform the same ceremony and treat 
the singers and dancers whom they have before invited. 
ATHAPASCAN STOCK 
Navano. St Michael, Arizona. 
Rev. Berard Haile describes the following game in a letter: 
Tsin beedzit, the great game of the Earth-winner. The Earth-winner, Ni’- 
nahuitbi’i, plays with the gambler, who lays a wager that he can outdo the 
Earth-winner in strength. A test is made by placing a pole 6 inches in diameter 
in the ground about 2 feet deep. The pole is about 8 feet in height, and the 
gambler pushes it over on a run. The Harth-winner thus loses the game. In 
consequence of this event, the Navaho, out of respect for their great teacher of 
games, who, they say, came from Mexico, do not play this game. 
Taku. Stuart lake, British Columbia. 
The Reverend Father A. G. Morice? says: 
To’ko’ is another pastime which is somewhat childish in character. In most 
cases it is played by the fireside in the camp lodge during the long winter even- 
ings. Its necessary accompaniments [figure 1074] are a blunt-headed stick and 
two small, thin, and springy boards firmly driven in the ground, one close by each 
« Historical Journal of Monsieur La Salle’s Last Voyage to Discover the River Missis- 
sippi. French's Historical Collections of Louisiana, v. 1, p. 186, New York, 1846. 
>Notes on the Western Dénés. ‘Transactions of the Canadian Institute, y. 4, p. 112, 
Toronto, 1895. ‘ 
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