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-8- . \ , T-621-4\down in front when—before they'd staqt.. They'd be sitting there, you know infront of'the boss who was going to run^the game/ And sometimes' they'd have. wa bead tossed inside, you know/of the"moccasin—or a marble. And they they'dr , .always pick one, you know to get up and start it.Well, they'd start the gameand then these moccasins would go around.They'd—they just went all the wayaround,, you know.It was like a card game you know, how the cards go round.And they'd be down here, and lot of times they'd change about £ou know, jastto keep them guessing like that.• > i• \ - • - . . • ' •(Did they have any kind of music?) _ . ..Mary: The singing with the dru"^. Sometimes they didn't use a drum, but justhow they felt about it, you know. They did. They would just go on like until ,finally the main guessers that had charge of the game, you iuiow.(Would* you say that was something lice the hand game, Fannie?)Uh-huh, I'think, so. The way it sounds, sounds like the hand game. J(They use the gourds don't they, in \he hartd game—to go around?)Yeah. • " »(I understand that you had quite a lot of hor.se races in the early days.)\Mary:races.Well, they did in the early days, they used to have a lot oT horseEven the women used to ride.(oh:) , . ' •'Mary: Yes, they used to ride. Aunt Frances and Jrandma, Cedar used to ride inthe early days.That's why they used to have a lot of fun if they had--they. hadponies, you know, they each had a pony and they too* care of it.-And theyunderstood the Quapaw language. Aad tfrey'd laugh, you know, be^ ê theydidn't pay any attention to the--Jometis9J there'd be a white man that wouldcome there, you Know.and do some work for 'em--cut wood for 'em you know andhaul some of it and pat it in the house you know.And the'y had a oig fireplaceand he would carry in those.big / chunks you know and stack it there by the fireplace.And then he'd put a back log back there you know--great big logthere you know, log.-And that would just burn for days. • And,,that way, why, he
-9- - • . T-621-4\got acquainted with a lot of the games that the Quapaws played cause he wouldattend them, you know. But it's just like--it's like--well, I wouldn't say thatit's like any other game, because it's regular Indian--f •i» (It's an Indian game. That's right. Well, now why don't yoi> and Mary pretendyou are goiag dowir^to camp and tell me something you are going to cook.) (laughs)Let's see.(conversation in background between Mary, Fannie and Velma.)(How do you say fry bread?) wMary: (speaking in Quapaw). That ipeans fried in grease.Bread.^Mary: Bread fried in grease., ., . . , ~(What is that dish the Osages make and^they put slippery elm in it?)Mary.: Well, they season £hat-- ' ' -(Oh, season it.)Is that the frying lard, qr something? ' / .(Um-huh. Yeah.) y '. . \ 'Uh-huhV ^ ''•'-} • \' •(Heat.) , • :Yeah. Uh-huh. ' ' , } ' ' •'" Mary:' And they like to eat their jweet pptatoes.Boil a swqet potato youk'now and then they dip tnat in tnat instead of--like the white people use\ *" : •'butter. . ' ~ ' /,^ -(They lip it in--) , •Mary:Wh,,. tr*ey lid it in that jreaje y-û know, "beja-se it'j jeaicnel you knowwith slippery elp. I've eaten a lot''of it. It's really.ûod.(What was the âapaw name for jorn:) . • -Watunja •»). Wat^nâ s".). When t:.at Vat-uiza was made ir.to 'ic-ir^,', tqey jail.- it Wai'toka ?;. / ' *:-(Did yo\i ever maxe ho.rjjiy on an old DIJJK iiKe tnat?]. Yeah. -•Angie--An € ;ie .Kenned^' and I fixed 'em one time. Cur first time'. 'laughs)
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