184 INDIAN GAMES. 



head Indian) dictionary, 1879. Names are then given for 

 " playing at wheels," "playing at wheels or citcIgs, Jones 

 ä la roulette,'''' and " tlie play wheels, la rouletteJ'^ 



CONTESTS OF SKILL. 



Kohl ^ found among the Lake Superior Indians a con- 

 test which consisted in shooting " slipping sticks " along 

 the ice. This is evidently Morgan's " snow snakes " and 

 La Potherie's ^' fuseaux. " 



Long ^^ says that the " Cahnuaga " (Caughnawaga) bo^^s 

 were expert in trundling hoop, and that some of them 

 drove hoops while others with bows and arrows shot at 

 the hoops while they were in motion. He states that they 

 woLild "stop the progress of the hoop when going with 

 great velocity, by driving thepointed arrovvinto its edge." 



OTHER AMÜSEMENTS OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN. 



Strachey,^^ whose pen has furnished a graphic aecount 

 of ball playing and of straw elsewhere in the same vol- 

 ume, draws a picture of the light-hearted but immodest 

 amusements of the Indian girls, as shown in the conduct 

 of "Pocahontas, a well-featured but wanton yong girle, 

 Powhattan's daughter," who when about eleven or twelve 

 years old would come to the fort and "get the boyes forth 

 with her into the markett place, and make them wheele, 

 falling on their hands, turning up their heeles upwards, 

 whome she would followe, and wheele so herseif, naked 

 as she was, all the fort over." 



3*Kitchi-Gami, p. 90. Kasles describes a similar play among children. "They 

 slide a flat piece of wood along tlie IVozen snow." 



Schoolcraft gives repvesentations of these Snow Snakes in plate 78, Vol. ll, In- 

 dian Tribes. I am indebted to Mr. Aluert S. Gatschet of Washington, for Infor- 

 mation concerning aganie played among the Wintün Indians, called Karä which is 

 playedby throwing up two disks of Avood connected by a string about three inches 

 long. These ave to be caught when they come down. Mr. Gatschet refers to Mr. 

 Jeremiah Curtin, Bureau of Ethnology, for his authorily. 



3^ Voyages and Travels of an Indian Interpreter, p. 53. 



sc Ilistory of Travaile into Virginia. 



