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Houghton USA
Ancient Art, Antiques, & Fine Collectables
NativeAmerican Game Stone Disc
XLGGranite Barrel Discoidal
Weighs2.96 lbs.
c.Late Woodland and Mississippian Culture
c.700-1400 AD
ThisGranite Barrel Discoidal isabout 3.79” (96 mm) inDiameter x 2.9” (70mm) tall.
ThisExtra Large Barrel Discoidal Weighs 2.96 Lbs. (1.34 kg)! WOW!!
Brief History of Stone Discoidals & the Game “Chunkey”
“The warriors have another favorite game called ‘chungke,’ which, with propriety of language, may be called ‘running hard labor’. 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. They have a stone about two fingers broad at the edge, and two spans round; each party has a pole of about eight feet long, smooth and tapering at each end, the points flat. They set off abreast of each other at six yards from the end of the play-ground; then one 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 run a few yards, each darts his pole anointed with bear’s oil, with a proper force, as near as he can guess in proportion to the motion of the stone, that the end may lie close to the stone; when this is the case, the person counts two of the game, and, in proportion to the nearness of the poles to the mark, one is counted, unless by measuring both are found to at an equal distance from the stone.
In this manner, the players will keep running most part of the day, at half speed, under the violent heat of the sun, staking their silver ornaments, their nose, finger, and ear rings; their breast, arm and wrist-plates; and even all their wearing apparel, except that which barely covers their middle.
All the American Indians are much addicted to this game, which it seems to be of early origin, when their forefathers used diversions as simple as their manners. The hurling-stones they use at present were, time immemorial, rubbed smooth on the rocks, and with prodigious labour; they are kept with the strictest religious care, from one generation to another, and are exempted from being buried with the dead. They belong to the town where they are used, and are carefully preserved.”
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