88 ANTIQUITIES OF WISCONSIN. 



This stone was found at Milwaukee, where it had doubtless been lost at some 

 remote time. Its form is precisely such as to enable it to roll the greatest distance 

 without falling. 



Similar stones are foundin Ohio, and are described by Messrs. Squier and Davis,'^ 

 which were without doubt used for a like purpose. 



Fig. 60 represents a chisel or implement of native copper, found at Stephen's 



One half natural size. 



Point on the upper Wisconsin river, in 1850, and deposited in the cabinet of the 

 University of Wisconsin by Mr. James W. Wright. It appears to have originally 

 had a sort of finish on the upper or convex side, and on the edges ; but in many 

 places it is decayed and gone. There are also indications of grinding or rubbing, on 

 the surface. The under, or flat side, is full of irregular cavities, and was probably 

 never smoothed. It is supposed to have been brought to its present shape by 

 hammering, probably with a stone hammer. 



alternately the most famous players, until their requisite numbers are made up. Their bettings are 

 then made, and their stakes are held by some of the chiefs, or others present. The play commences 

 with two (one from each party), who start off upon a trot abreast of each other, and one of them rolls, 

 in advance of them on the pavement, a little ring of two or three inches in diameter, cut out of a stone; 

 and each one follows it up with his tchung-kee (a stick six feet in length, with little bits of leather pro- 

 jecting from its sides, of an inch or more in length), which he throws before him as he runs, sliding it 

 along upon the ground after the ring, endeavoring to place it in such a position when it stops, that the 

 ring may fall upon it, and receive one of the little projections of leather through it, which counts for game 

 one, or two, or four, according to the position of the leather on which the ring is lodged. The last winner 

 always has the rolling of the ring, and both start the tchung-kee together ; if either fails to receive the 

 ring, or to lie in a oertain position, it is a forfeiture of the amount of the number he was nearest to, 

 and he loses his throw ; when another steps into his place. The game is a difficult one to describe so 

 as to give an exact idea of it, unless one can see it played ; it is a game of great beauty and fine bodily 

 exercise, and these people become excessively fond of it." — Catlin's North American Indians, 1,132. 



A similar game was practised by the Senecas ; as described by Lewis H. Morgan, in the Third Annual 

 Report of the Regents of the University of New York, 1850, p. 79. [And likewise by the Upper 

 Creeks. See Smithsonian Contributions, II, 135-140 ; Trans. Amer. Ethnol. Soc, III, 51-5T. — 

 Secretary S. /.] 



* Smithsonian Contributions, I, 222. 



