Of the Bureau of American Ethnology in the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 1902-1903 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 Excerpt: ...man wanted to play this game he took a number of his su-ha sticks and went through the village calling " su ha su ha " One or more of the players would take a boy by the feet and drag him down some incline, thus making a track, or path, In the snow. Down this path each player In turn, calling out " su ha " threw one of his sticks, as a spear is thrown. To mark the distance this stick was stuck up in the snow beside the path, opposite the Flo. 523 a, 6, c. Snow-snakes; lengths, 21,18, and 14J inches; Penobscot Indians, Oldtown, Maine; cat. no. 48233 to 48235, Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology. place where it stopped. When all the sticks had been thrown, they became the property of the man whose stick had covered the greatest distance. He would gather them all up and selecting such as he wanted, calling out at the same time " su ha " throw the others up in the air, and they became the property of those strong and quick enough to secure them. This game has not been played since 1842. Sauk And Foxes. Iowa. (Cat. no. 7fgT, American Museum of Natural History.) Slender stick of hard wood (figure 524),25 inches in length, with an egg-shaped end hardened by fire. Collected by Dr William Jones, who describes it as snow-snake. Prof. Frederick Starr informed the writer that it was swung by the small end to give it impetus. Fio. 524. Snow-snake: length, 25J inches; Sank and Fox Indians, Iowa; cat. no.,58 , American Museum of Natural History.-Iowa. (American Museum of Natural History.) Cat. no. yjff. Three pointed sumac sticks, 46 to 52 inches in length. Collected by Dr William Jones, who gives the name as shoskwihani, sliders. Fio. 525. Snow-snakes; length, 30 inches; Sank and Fox Indians, Iowa; cat. no. jj8j, American ...