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92 GAMES OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS  [erH. ayn. 24 
Micmac. Nova Scotia. 
Dr A. S. Gatschet ¢ writes: 
The majority of the games they play now are borrowed from the whites. 
Their checker game is the same as ours and played on a checkerboard. <A 
checker stone is called adena’gan (plural, adena’gank), while the checkerboard 
is adenagenei’. The checkers are either disk-shaped and smooth (mimusya- 
witchink adena’gank) or square (esgigeniyi’tchik adena’gank ). 
The game is called after the moving of the stones from square to square; 
nin adnai’, it is my move; kit adnat, it is your move. 
Passamaquoppy. Maine. 
Mrs W. W. Brown ? describes the following game: 
Ko-ko-nag’n has a resemblance to the game of checkers, but, although nearly 
all are more or less proficient at the latter game, there are only a few who 
understand ko-ko-na-g’n. This, unlike any other game, may be played by male 
and female opponents. It is the least noisy, the skillful play requiring delibera- 
tion and undivided attention. A smooth surface is marked off into different- 
sized spaces, and pieces of wood, round and square, marked to qualify value, 
are generally used, though sometimes carved bone is substituted. 
Fig. 1087. Fig. 1088. 
Fia. 1087. Board game and men; dimensions of board, 9 inches square; Cree and Chippewa 
Indians, Assiniboia; cat. no. 61994, Field Columbian Museum 
Fia. 1088. Board game; Keres Indians, Acoma, New Mexico. 
This may be the game referred to by Rasle among the Norridge- 
wock Indians, where he says: 
Un autre jeu of l’on place des grains sur des espéce de lozanges entrelassées, 
di’r (dicitur), maiimadoaiigii. 
KERESAN STOCK 
Keres. Acoma, New Mexico. 
An Acoma Indian named James H. Miller, employed at Zuni, de- 
seribed to the writer under the name of aiyawatstani, chuck away 
grains, the game illustrated in figure 1088. Twenty-two white and 
twenty-two black pieces are used on each side. He explained that 
they learned the game in the olden time when they first came out of 
the ship-pap (si-pa-pu) away in the north. Iyatiko, the mother, 
made all the games. 
«From Baddeck, Nova Scotia, August 28, 1899. 
> Some Indoor and Outdoor Games of the Wabanaki Indians. Transactions of the Royal 
Society of Canada, v. 6, sec. 2, p. 43, Montreal, 1889. 
