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around each half. Three .parallel embankments are formed from 
sand or short straw, the two grooves being about as long as the 
poles and a foot in width. Through these grooves the hoop and 
poles are thrown. There are two players to each side, the hoop is 
thrown down the groove of one side and is returned in that belong- 
ing to the other. When the hoop is started one player from each 
side grasping his pole runs swiftly after, trying to pass it through the 
rolling hoop. When the ring falls on the pole, the game, which 
may be all the way from twenty to a hundred points as agreed 
upon, counts according to the number of circular marks of the hoop 
and pole which come in contact. : 
In the game called ‘‘ Satitt,’’ which is played by women, a square 
about two feet in diameter is formed with a large flat stone in 
the center. The outer margin of the square is marked by forty 
small stones, ten on each side, with an interval at each angle. 
These upright stones are used as counters by the four players who 
count in different directions, the two opposite being partners. The 
players kneel outside the square and keep count by sticks which 
they move from place to place among the rocks. To play the game 
two sets of three sticks about six inches long and three-quarter inch 
wideareused. They are round on the back and flat on the face, and 
being held between the thumb and fingers at about the lower third, 
which is marked on the flat face by a diagonal black line, are sud- 
denly struck on the central rock and allowed to fall. If the three 
round sides are upward, they count ten, the three flat sides count 
five, two flat and one round count two; two rounds and one flat 
count three. The player making ten points is entitled to another 
throw. They continue playing until one side has won three games. 
To obtain good luck they, like many of their not much wiser 
white brethren, resort to tricks and charms. They sometimes sub- 
stitute one set of sticks for the other; strike each separately on the 
center rock before playing, or even break off the end of one of the 
sticks. _ 
Both men and women play cards with either the ordinary Amer-. 
ican or the Mexican packs. Formerly the only cards in use 
were made by themselves from horsehide. They were ornamented 
to represent the Mexican Monte deck, the figures rudely executed, 
but the colors well laid on—if such a pack is now wanted an Indian © 
will charge three or four dollars for making it. 
