Here’s the fun part, for me a anyway:
A “gwassik” or “quassik” or “qussuk” refers to stones, or a place of where stones may be.
Per above, there was a Mahican custom when passing certain landmarks to find a stone and throw it on a pile. Over time, very large piles of stones accrued.
There is, in fact, a gigantic pile of stones along the stream which is marked on the Livingston map as “nanipani/e/hekan.” This might be Native American, or it might have been made by sheep farmers in the 19th Century, who would collect frost-heaved stones for building walls later... Or maybe both—the colonists may have just thrown their wallstones where the Native pile started.
Anyway, it occurred to me to think of poker chips as “stones” which you throw onto a pile, which accumulates during a hand. As the hand progresses, each player throws in more stones (or doesn’t...).
On the other side of the pile, I’ll use the word Mawanagwassik (haven’t chosen which phonetic spelling I prefer yet) along with the wild animal images...