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Haupt Ojibway. Playing the Moccosin game.

Bullets. use in Moccosin game.

The Ojibway Moccosin game is still in vogue this is played by two as principle and any number of others as assistants. a blanket is stretched upon the ground and held down with pegs. Four Muccesins or pieces of buckskin are provided and also four bullets or stones or any other object. one of the objects is marked differently from the rest. A piece of wood is split up into splinters about six inches long and the thickness of a match as counters. A long stick or wand is furnished one of he opposing players and the other has the moccesins and the bullets. a third indian or it may happen indians preside at a drum or "tom tom" which he beats with two sticks as a rule while he chants a nasal song.. and the play begins. the bets are made up. and the holder of the bullets spreads the four Moccesins on the blanket before him. he then takes the bullets in the right hand and giving the chant shakes the bullets in his hand and swaying his body from side to side goes through a variety of [?] and suddenly with the left hand lifts one of the meccesins and drops under it a bullet. then another and another till they are all under the moccesins.. Then the [?opponent?opposite?] side take up the chant and using the wand and suddenly. with the end turns over one then another of the moccesins and strikes with the wand the third. under one of which that he thinks the marked bullet to be. If he should guess aright it counts him one. and the other player takes the wand. and the play continues till one or the other side has made points enough to win the "stake" when another is put up and the play continues till the players are exhausted. All night and all day the idle indian will sit at this play. till fatigue induces them to sleep.

  "Oh.nindge.e.ah-tak-gaywin"  "Finger game" is another Ojibway pastime.  It is played by two players squatted on the ground. on either side of a blanket.   The game [?] it on in the muccesin game [?] by a  third person.   The game proceeds in this manner one of the indians