 | James Haines McCulloh - 1829 - 558 páginas
...(Jldair's Jlmerican Indians, 402.) "After the ground has been smoothed for the purpose, the Choctaw take a stone about two fingers broad at the edge, and two spans round; each party, (two or three only play at a time,) has a pole about eight feet long, which when the stone is rolled... | |
 | 1846 - 492 páginas
...motion to what they throw along the surface. Only one or two on a side, play at this ancient game. They have a stone about two fingers broad at the edge and two spans round ; each party has a pole about eight feet long, smooth and tapering at each end, the points flat. They set off abreast of each... | |
 | Charles Colcock Jones (Jr.) - 1861 - 132 páginas
...inch, to an inch or more, with diameters ranging from two to six inches. Each party playing, has a pole about eight feet long, smooth, and tapering at each end — the points flat. The players sit off abreast of each other, at six yards distance from the end of the play ground. One... | |
 | Charles C. Jones - 1873 - 622 páginas
...motion to what they throw along the surface. Only one or two on a side play at this ancient game. They have a stone about two fingers broad at the edge,...them hurls the stone on its edge, in as direct a line as he can, a considerable div tance toward the middle of the other end of the square: when they have... | |
 | Charles Colcock Jones - 1873 - 622 páginas
...motion to what they throw along the surface. Only one or two on a side play at this ancient game. They have a stone about two fingers broad at the edge,...tapering at each end, the points flat. They set off 1 "C. Cornell! Taciti Opera omnia, ad fidem editionis OrcllianiE," torn, ii., p. 248. Oionii, 1851.... | |
 | Charles Colcock Jones - 1873 - 660 páginas
..."C. Cornell! Taciti Opera omnia, ad fidcra cditionis Orellianac," torn, ii., p. 213. Oxonii, 1851. abreast of each other at six yards from the end of...them hurls the stone on its edge, in as direct a line as he can, a considerable distance toward the middle of the other end of. the square: when they have... | |
 | John Wells Foster - 1874 - 432 páginas
...ground, kept clear, and occasionally strewn with sand. Only one or two on a side play at this game. They have a stone about " two fingers broad at the edge, and two spans round ; " each party has a pole about eight feet in length, smooth and tapering at each end, the points flat. The players start off... | |
 | Charles Rau - 1876 - 118 páginas
...motion to what they throw along the surface. Only one or two on a side play at this ancient game. They have a stone about two fingers broad at the edge,...them hurls the stone on its edge, in as direct a line as he can ? a considerable distance toward the middle of the other end of the square; when they have... | |
 | 1877 - 378 páginas
...Cherokees. GROUNDS. of ground well cleaned. Only one or two on a side play at this ancient game. They ha vea stone about two fingers broad at the edge, and two spans round; each party has a pole about eight feet long, smooth and tapering at each end, the points flat." Adair then gives the method... | |
 | Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology - 1880 - 806 páginas
...to what they throw along the surface. Only one, or two on a side, play at this ancient game. Th'ey have a stone about two fingers broad at the edge,...them hurls the stone on its edge, in as direct a line as he can, a considerable distance toward the middle of the other end of the square : when they have... | |
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They have near their state-house a square piece of ground well cleaned, and fine sand is carefully strewed over it, when requisite, to promote a swifter motion to what they throw along the surface. Only one or two on a side play at this ancient game.... 
