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mkn's games: banaxge-kide, etc. 



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The stakes may be leggings, robes, arrows, necklaces, etc. All are 

 lost by the losing side, and are distributed by the winners in equal 

 shares. One of the elder 

 men is requested to make 

 the distribution. Two 

 small boys, about twelve 

 years old, stand at the 

 posts A, and two others 

 are at D. One boy at each 

 end tries to send the ball 

 between the posts, but the 

 other one attempts to send 

 it in the opposite direction. 

 These boys are called uhe 

 ginaji". 



The game used to be 

 played in three ways : (1.) 

 Phratry against phratry. 

 Then one of the players was 

 not blindfolded. (2.)Village 

 against village. The Omahas had three villages after 1855. Bi-kii de was 

 Gahige's village, where most of the people were. Wi"-dja'-ge was Stand 



L'*16. 35. — I'.tbvi" an La. 



Fie. 36.— Diagram of the playgrouud 



iug Hawk's village, near the Mission. Ja n -(fa / -te was Sanssouci's village, 

 near Decatur. Frank La Fleche remembers one occasion when Wi n - 

 djage challenged Bikude to play cjabe-gasi, and the former won. (3.) 

 \Yhen the game was played neither by phratries nor by villages, sides 

 were chosen thus : A player was blindfolded, and the sticks were placed 

 before him in one pile, each stick having a special mark by which its 

 owner could be identified. The blindfolded man then took up two sticks 

 at a time, one in each hand, and, after crossing hands, he laid the 

 sticks in separate piles. The owners of the sticks in one pile formed a 

 side for the game. The corresponding women's game is Wabaonade. 



§ 231. c pi<fu"-,jahe, or Stick and ring. — jaf^-jahe is a game played 

 by two men. At each end of the play-ground, there are two "buja," 

 or rounded heaps of earth. 



A ring of rope or hide, the wafigije, is rolled along the ground, and 

 each player tries to dart a stick through it as it goes. He runs very 

 swiftly after the hoop, and thrusts the stick with considerable force. 

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