Hey Larson A Question

[flintdigger]

Do you have a link to the game played with those game pieces ?

 

[larson1951]

yes tommy but i cannot think of it now
let's google ba-dush-ka
indian game piece or
mandan indian game piece and games
or something like dat
there were 7 pieces, the one i cannot find has a buffalo face on it
the pieces were put in a basket and thrown into the air and then scored
the game is on the internet someplace
if you find it please get a link, K?
steve

 

[flintdigger]

Thank's I'll do a ggogle search

 

[archer66]

Here is a good link looks like a National Park Service site:

http://www.nps.gov/archive/knri/teach/games.htm




Here is a paste from the text on the link:

Young women sat on the ice wrapped in buffalo robes and played gambling games. A common one was played by two teams with two to eight players each. As in many such amusements, the object was to slide a game piece to a goal. In this case, a bone thrower made from a buffalo vertebra was used to propel the gaming piece towards the goal, which was a piece of wood about three inches long, notched at each end and painted red. The game piece itself was either a flat, circular river pebble or a small, square piece of buffalo vertebra. Such bone pieces were usually decorated with two carved lines stretching from corner to corner and crossing in the center.


Another paste:

A wide variety of hand games and gambling games were popular throughout the year and were played by both men and women. One was called "dish raised up". Five bone dice, each marked with a different design, were tossed in a plate-shaped basket. The score was kept according to the points represented by the various design combinations, each being worth a certain number of points. Counting sticks were used to keep track of the score.