ESKIMO GAMES.
In the matter of amusements the Eskimo are not badly off. Thev have a form of the cup-and-ball game played there, the ball being a block of ivory with holes at different angles, into which one of the players strives to insert an ivory peg as the block falls, the position of the hole determining the value of the stroke. Another game closely resembles dominoes, while, when they can borrow or purchase a pack of cards, the more intelligent of them will play with considerable skill; and they joy draughts, having learned these games from the whalers. They also have a game exactly like solitaire, with the exception that ivory pegs take the place of glass balls. The special amusement of the women is a species of “cat's cradle,” which has been brought to such perfection that they develop from the string twenty to thirty different figures in it. Indeed, they are extremely clever in performing tricks with string, winding and twisting a piece in and out among their fingeis, and then disentangling it by a single pull on one end.
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Franklin Times, Volume 9, Issue 616, 15 March 1921, Page 6
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183ESKIMO GAMES. Franklin Times, Volume 9, Issue 616, 15 March 1921, Page 6
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