What did the Indians play with?

Answer 1

Games recorded for the Mohawk tribe include dice and rackets.

Dice games (called tooatnenhaooinneton in Mohawk) consisted of a wooden bowl and a number of dried wild plum stones marked on one side; the plum stones would be thrown from the bowl onto a deer hide and the result calculated.

Mohawk rackets were the origin of Lacrosse, using saplings bent into a curve at one end with netting attached - these rackets (kidukwastah or atsisikwahe) were about 4 feet long. The ball (noha or atenno) was of deer hide, about 2.5 inches across and sewn much like a modern Baseball. Goals were marked by poles about 12 feet tall set about 10 paces apart and at a distance varying from "40 to 80 rods" from each other.

A match played between Mohawks and Senecas in 1797 had about 600 players on each side and the ball was put into play by a beautiful young girl.

Answer 2

Games recorded for the Mohawk tribe include dice and rackets.

Dice games (called tooatnenhaooinneton in Mohawk) consisted of a wooden bowl and a number of dried wild plum stones marked on one side; the plum stones would be thrown from the bowl onto a deer hide and the result calculated.

Mohawk rackets were the origin of Lacrosse, using saplings bent into a curve at one end with netting attached - these rackets (kidukwastah or atsisikwahe) were about 4 feet long. The ball (noha or atenno) was of deer hide, about 2.5 inches across and sewn much like a modern Baseball. Goals were marked by poles about 12 feet tall set about 10 paces apart and at a distance varying from "40 to 80 rods" from each other.

A match played between Mohawks and Senecas in 1797 had about 600 players on each side and the ball was put into play by a beautiful young girl.

Answer 3

sticks (Golf club) leather ball