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ceptiou of horses, anything may be staked which is played for iu ba- 

 nafige-kide. 



§ 234. Ma n -gadaze is a game unknown among the Omahas, but prac- 

 ticed among the Ponkas, who have learned it from the Dakotas. It is 

 played by two men. Each one holds a bow upright in his left hand 

 with one end touching the ground and the bow-string towards a heap 

 of arrows. In the other hand he holds an arrow, which he strikes 

 against the bow-string, which rebounds as he lets the arrow go. The 

 latter flies suddenly towards the heap of arrows and goes among them. 

 The player aims to have the feather on his arrow touch that on some 

 other arrow which is in tbe heap. In that case he wins as many arrows 

 as the feather or web has touched; but if the sinew on his arrow touches 

 another arrow it wins not only that one but all in the heap. 



§ 235. l n '-uti u/ , Hitting the stone, is a game played at night. Sometimes 

 there are twenty, thirty, or forty players on each side. Four moccasins 

 are placed in a row, and a member of one party covers them, putting 

 in one of them some small object that can be easily concealed. Then 

 he says " Come ! hit the moccasin in which you think it is." Then one 

 of the opposite side is choseu to hit the moccasiu. He arises, examines 

 all, and hits one. Should it be empty, they say, " $iug66 ha," It is 

 /ranting." He throws it far aside and forfeits his stakes. Three moc- 

 casins remain for the rest of his friends to try. Should one of them hit 

 the right one (uska n/ ska n uti n/ , or uka n/ ska uti n/ ), he wins the stakes, 

 and his side has the privilege of hiding the object in the moccasin. He 

 who hits the right moccasin can hit again and again till he misses. 

 Sometimes it is determined to change the rule for winning, and then 

 the guesser aims to avoid the right moccasiu the first time, but to hit 

 it when he makes the second trial. Should he hit the right one the 

 first time he loses his stakes. If he hits the right one when he hits the 

 second moccasiu, he wins, and his side has the right to hide the object. 

 They play till one side or the other has wou all the sticks or stakes. 

 Sometimes there are players who wiu back what they have lost. He 

 who takes the right moccasin wins four sticks, or any other number 

 which may be fixed upou by previous agreement. 



Eight sticks win a blanket; four win leggings; one hundred sticks, 

 a full-grown horse ; sixty sticks, a colt ; ten sticks, a gun ; one, an ar- 

 row ; four, a knife or a pound of tobacco ; two, half a pound of tobacco. 

 Buffalo robes (meha), otter skins, and beaver skins are each equal to 

 eight sticks. Sometimes they stake moccasins. 



When one player wins all his party yell. The men of each party sit 

 in a row, facing their opponents, and the moccasins are placed between 

 them. 



§236. Shooting arrotcs at a mark is called " Ma n kide. " The mark 

 (nacabegf.e t6) may be placed at any distance from the contestants. 

 There must be an even number of persons on each side. Men play with 

 men and boys with boys. Arrows are staked. Sometimes when an ar- 



