Notes On the Tinneh Or Chepewyan Indians of British And Russian America
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Four trees are selected, forming as nearly as possible a square ot about thirty feet, to which strong leather cords are tied diagonally as tight as possible, about twenty feet from the ground. Where the cords cross a piece of leather about eight inches square is tied securely, on which each in his urn i^ required to stand. The least pressure sends the person up in the air perhaps a couple of feet, when he comes down the second time on the piece ot leather The cords being suddenly distended with... his weight, the " contre coup will shoot him up perpendicularly in the air, perhaps a dozen feet, ^ow is the time of dano-er, for if he is not expert, or has not been able to keep himself straight, be may come down a height of perhaps twenty or thirty feet on his head to the o-rouud. The object is to see who will fall oftenest perpendicularly on his eet Sn the little leather table without breaking his neck, I might say, or tumbling on one side to the ground to the amusement and uproarious laughter ot the "" Thev arc hospitable, but more, I think, because it was a custom of then- fathers than frmn real generosity.
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