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Games of the North American Indians (1907)

Culin, Stewart, 1858-1929 · leaf 329

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, has furnished the writer the following account of the game played with the above-mentioned bones and counters : It is called ne ang-puki, meaning to kill the bone (pu-ki means to kill ; ang or ong being the bone, and ne probably a personal prefix for my, the whole name being equivalent to " my… … PIG. 410. Paiute Indians playing hand game; southern Utah: from photograph by Mr J. K. Hillers.a time he shifts the bones from one hand to the other. On " call," he brings both hands to the front, and crosses them on his breast. The callers now begin their chant. Suddenly one will extend his arm…

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