. Annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . ver a hundred yards through the air with such force as to knocka person down. At Fort Chimo the game is played during the late winter afternoonswhen the temperature is 30^ or 10= below zero. It is exciting andvigorous play where a large crowd joins in the game. Sometimes the ball is in the form of two irregular hemispheres joinedtogether, making a sphere which can be rolled only in a certain di-rection. It is very awkward and produces much confusion by itserratic course. Nos. 3161, 3287, and 3160 are f
. Annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . ver a hundred yards through the air with such force as to knocka person down. At Fort Chimo the game is played during the late winter afternoonswhen the temperature is 30^ or 10= below zero. It is exciting andvigorous play where a large crowd joins in the game. Sometimes the ball is in the form of two irregular hemispheres joinedtogether, making a sphere which can be rolled only in a certain di-rection. It is very awkward and produces much confusion by itserratic course. Nos. 3161, 3287, and 3160 are footballs of the patternfirst described. The Innuit who come from the western end of Hudson strait, the so-called Northerners, have a game which they play with sets of piecesof ivory cut into irregular shapes, and marked on one face with spotsarranged in different patterns (Fig. 77). The number of pieces in a setvaries from 60 to 118. The name of the set is A ma zu a Idt, andsomewhat resembles our game of dominoes. The game is played in the following manner: Two or more persons, 11 ETH 17. Pig. 77.—Dominoes. Hudson Strait Eskimo. 258 THE HUDSON BAY ESKIMO. according to the number of pieces in the set, sit down and pile the pieces before them. One of the players mixes the pieces together in plain ^nev/? of the others. When this is done he calls them to take the pieces. Each person endeavors to obtain ahalf or third of the number if there be twoor three players. The one who mixed up thepieces lays down a piece and calls his oppo-nent to match it with a piece having a simi-lar design. If this can not be tlone by anyof the playeis the lirst has to uiatcli it andthe game continues until one of the personshas exhausted all of the pieces taken by pieces are designed in pairs, havingnames such as Ka miii tik (sled), Kaiak (ca-noe), Kal6 sak (navel), A ma zut (many), atan sik (1), IVlii kok (2), Ping a sut (3), Si tamut (4), and Ta li mat (.)). Each of thenames aliove must be m
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