Note 33 — Front matter

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.