[33] The study of games as played among North American Indians, is a field in itself. This has been covered most exhaustively by Mr. Stewart Culin in his recent work, GAMES OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS: (24th Rep., B. A. E., 1907), and to this volume we refer any student who wishes to make detailed researches. In addition to this work, Catlin’s great contribution to the history of the North American tribes is in itself a mine of general information, though his little volume entitled THE FOURTEEN IOWAY INDIANS, published in London in 1844, treats of the games of the Iowa more particularly. Where possible the earlier edition of that writer’s LETTERS AND NOTES should be used rather than the later issues with the colored plates, such method of illustration having been condemned by Catlin from the beginning. INDIAN GAMES AN HISTORICAL RESEARCH by Andrew McFarland Davis, is a valuable monograph. All of the above refer _in extenso_ to the Iowa. [34] THE FOURTEEN IOWAY INDIANS. London, 1844. This little pamphlet is now scarce, and was written by Catlin at the instance of the parties who brought the Indians to London. He was particularly interested from an humanitarian point of view. An edition was issued in Paris, a year later, with woodcuts by Porret, adding interest to the work. [35] THE FOURTEEN IOWAY INDIANS. [36] _Ibid._ [37] A translation of the song for this occasion is as follows: “Take care of yourself—shoot well, or you lose, You warned me, but, see! I have defeated you! I am one of the Great Spirit’s children! Wa-konda I am! I am Wa-konda!” See Alice C. Fletcher’s paper, _Tribal Structure_, as included in THE PUTNAM ANNIVERSARY VOLUME, Cedar Rapids, 1909, for a further exposition of the word Wa-K_on_’-da. [38] Culin. GAMES OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS. [39] In a game witnessed by the writer, on the Sauk and Fox Reservation at Tama, Iowa, in 1907, the ball used was wood. This tribe is slow to acquire new ideas, nor has it advanced greatly during the last fifty years. The game was one of intense excitement and is still played along the same lines as in the earlier days of this once powerful band. [40] FIELD COLUMBIAN MUSEUM CATALOG, No. 71404. [41] THE FOURTEEN IOWAY INDIANS. [42] The oldest attempt at a detailed description of the game is given by Nicolas Perrot, MÉMOIRE SUR LES MOEURS, COSTUMES ET RELIGION DES SAUVAGES DE L’AMÉRIQUE SEPTENTRIONALE. First printed in Paris in 1864. [43] See Catlin. THE FOURTEEN IOWAY INDIANS, page 19, for a translation in full of this song. [44] THE FOURTEEN IOWAY INDIANS, page 20. [45] _Ibid._, page 21. In the French translation of this pamphlet these _chansons_ are particularly well rendered.