Snow-snake as played by the Seneca-Iroquois (1909)
Parker, Arthur Caswell, 1881-1955 · Lancaster, Pa., New Era Prtg. Co. · leaf 13
ed, the first stick is lifted from the track and the one which has gone the greater distance declared the winner of the point. The object of leaving the first snake in the track is two-fold : it may stop the almost spent stick of the rival, but if, on the other hand, the rival’s stick is far from… … Fig. 57. — The snow-snake game. The drawing depicts a heddie'^s in the act of throwing a snow-snake at one of the midwinter clan games at Newtown, Cattaraugus reservation, Erie county. New York. out of five points constitute a game between two individual players. A snake is in play immediately upon…
Games · Games -- Indians of North America -- Seneca
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