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Florida and Louisiana (1540). The Esquimaux yoked reindeer or 
dogs to their sledges, and also used them for hunting and for food. 
The Quiches had places for breeding geese, that were kept for 
furnishing feathers. Turkeys and various animals were domesti- 
cated. 
Coronado, in his expedition to Cibola (1540), describes the Indi- 
ans of New Mexico as using dogs for draft. 
They told fictitious tales, chanted their exploits in hunting and 
in war, recited poetry, and sang songs to the sound of drums and 
rattles. 
They practiced wrestling, leaping, foot races and shooting with 
the bow. ; 
Their most notable game was ball, played by two parties or two 
tribes. The contest was to force the ball against one of two wickets, 
placed five hundred yards apart. The players were dressed in their 
most elaborate costume, and each carried a species of racket 
with which to strike or catch the ball. Who first carried the ball 
twelve times through their wicket, won. It was fair to strike, trip, 
grapple, or take any advantage of strength or cunning. 
Parties in the game were arranged according to their family 
colors,*as among the Sauks, the reds, blues, blacks and whites 
were paired off, all of similar colors together. 
Chungke was played by many tribes in North America (see Adair, 
Bartram, Catlin). They used a discoidal stone three to six inches 
in diameter. Each party had a pole about six feet long, with little 
thongs of leather tied on it at intervals of one foot. The stone was 
rolled along the ground, the stick thrown after it, and whoever 
threw nearest the stone, or so that the thongs of leather fell 
through the hole in the center of the stone, won the game. 
These stones were made with great labor—some of compact 
quartz, well polished; they were kept from generation to gener- 
ation, and belonged to the town. ‘The Mexicans were devoted to 
this game. 
The game of dish or platter consisted of throwing up pieces of 
flat bone, or plum stones; they fell in a dish or onamat. Accord- 
ing to the number of colored sides uppermost, the thrower lost or 
won. 
A game played with two hundred and one, or fifty-two straws, 
was played by the Algonquins. 
