MALLERY.] GAMES. 5AT 
hearth of fire; 7, the wife; m, copal (the latter is not shown in the draw- 
ing, but the copal is between the marrying couple); 7, the husband; 0, 
the old woman; p, the old man; q, food; 7, a mat; s, food; ¢, an old wo- 
man; u, a pitcher of pulque; v, a cup; w, x, the women lighting the 
bride on her way with torches, when on the first night of the wedding 
they accompany her to the house of the bridegroom; y, the female nego- 
tiator; 2, the bride; aa, bb, women lighting the bride and bridegroom 
on the first night of their wedding. 
SEC LTOMN 3: 
GAMES. 
Many accounts of the games of the Indians have been published, but 
they are not often connected with pictography. Those now presented 
refer to the picturing connected with only three games. 
Fig. 772.—A dead man was used in the 
ring-and-pole game. American-Horse’s 
Winter Count, 1779-80. 
The figure represents the stick and ring 
used in the game of haka, with a human 
head in front to suggest that the corpse — ig. 772.—Haka game. Dakota. 
took the place of the usual stick. This and the next figure illustrate 
the game. 
Fig. 773.—It was an intensely cold winter and a ‘i 
Dakota froze to death. American-Horse’s Winter 
Count, 1777—78. 
The sign for snow or winter, i. e., a cloud with snow 
falling from it, is above the man’s head. A haka-stick, 
which is used in playing that game, is represented in 
front of him. 
Battiste Good’s record further explains the iflustra- 
tion by the account that the Dakota was killed in a 
fight with the Pawnees, and his companions left his 
body where they supposed it would not be found, but 
the Pawnees found it, and, as it was frozen stiff, they 
dragged it into their camp and played haka with it, P16. 7785" Haka game. 
The characters a and b, Fig. 774, represent one point of view of two 
of a set of Haida gambling sticks, real size. They are made of juniper 
or some other similar wood, and neatly carved with diverse figures. 
The game is played by any number of persons, and it would seem with 
any number of marked sticks. A dealer sits on the ground with a pile 
of shredded cedar bark in front of him, and with much ceremony draws 
out the sticks one by one without looking at them and passes them to 
the players, in turn, who sit in front of him. 
Each device counts a certain number, in a manner similar to the 
devices on ordinary playing cards, and the winning is by the high and 
