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Tlie Moj.ives are accustomed to phi}- a similar game 

 which has been described under the name " Hoop and 

 Pole".*^ A simihir game was played by the Xavajoes.^ 



The Yumas played a game with two poles fifteen feet 

 long and a ring a few inches in diameter.^" Kane^^ says 

 that the Chualpays at FortColville on the Columbia "have 

 a game which they call 'AlkoUock,' which requires consid- 

 erable skill. A smooth, level piece of ground is chosen, 

 and a slight barrier of a couple of sticks placed length- 

 wise is laid at each end of the chosen spot, ])eing irom 

 forty to fifty feet apart and only a few inches high. The 

 two players, stripped naked, are armed with a very slight 

 spear, about three feet long, and finely pointed with bone ; 

 one of them takes a ring made of bone or some heavy 

 Avood and Avound with cord. The ring is about three 

 inches in diameter, on the inner circumference of which 

 are fastened six beads of difierent colors, at equal dis- 

 tances, to each of which a separate value is attached. 

 The ring is then rolled along the ground to one of the 

 barriers and is followed at the distance of two or three 

 yards b}^ the players, and as the ring strikes the barrier 

 and is falling on its side, the spears are thrown, so that 

 the ring may fall on them. If any one of the spears 

 should be covered by the ring, the owner counts according 

 to the colored bead on it. But it generally hapi)ens from 

 the dexterity of the players that the ring covers both 

 spears and each counts according to the color of the beads 

 above his spear. They then play towards the other 



«» Lieut. A. W. Whipple in Pac. R. R. Rep., Vol. Ill, p. 114; Harper's M.ig., Vol. 

 XVII, p.46.{; Domenecli, Vol. II, p. 197; H. H. Bancroft's Native Riices, Vol. I, p. 

 3'.t3, p. 517 and note 133. The Martial Experiences of the California Volunteers by 

 Kdward Carlsen. Overland, A'ol, vii, Xo. 41. 2nd Series, p. 494. 



*» Major E. A. Backus in Si-hoolcraft, Vol. iv, p. 214. 



"" W. n. Emory, U. S. and Mexican Boundary Survey, Vol. I, p. 111. 



'« Kane's Wanderings, p. 310; II. U. Baucrolt's Xntive Races, Vol. i, p. 280. 



