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the other, and a score is made \vheu a dart remains sticking into the 

 target. Ten small wooden counting sticks are placed on 

 the floor by the target, and one of these is given for each 

 score; the side gaining the most of these counters takes 

 the pri/e, and the game begins again. 



At Cape Nome, south of Bering strait, a similar dart game 

 was seen, but there the target was a square, board-like 

 piece of wood with a dark-colored bull s-eye painted in the 

 center. This was set up in the kashim and the men and 

 boys threw their darts at it, scoring when they hit the bull s- 

 eye. The wooden portion of the darts used in this game, 

 both at Cape Nome and St Michael, was from five to six 

 inches in length and from three-fourths of an inch to an 

 inch in diameter at the larger end. Figure 121 represents 

 a dart from Cape Nome, used for throwing at a square board 

 target with a round, black bull s eye painted on its center. 

 The players place the target on one side of the kashim and 

 stand upon the other side to throw, scoring one for each 

 dart that sticks in the bull s-eye. These darts are nearly 

 two feet in length and have a tapering wooden handle, larg 

 est at the front, with an ivory point fastened in the lower 

 end by a tapering, wedge-shape point, which is inserted in 

 the split end and lashed firmly. The upper end of the 

 shaft tapers to a small, round point, on which is fastened 

 the end of a feather from a cormorant s tail, which serves 

 to guide the dart in its flight. 



NET AND D ART THUG WING GAME (nu-g o -htt-tfa -niik) 

 (St Michael). This is played in the kashim by men only. 

 A small, oval, wooden frame, about three inches long by 

 an inch and a half wide, having the interior finely netted 

 with cord, is hung from the roof and held in place by a cord 

 at each end. It is placed about four feet from the floor in 

 front of the summer entrance or under the smoke-hole in 

 the roof. Each player has a long, slender dart, about three 

 feet in length and a quarter of an inch in diameter, with a 

 barbed point of bone or deerhorn. To the butt end of the 

 dart is fastened a small cord, so that the player can draw it 

 back after throwing. When the point of the dart enters 

 the wooden ring it is held fast by the barbs on the point, 

 and this scores one for the successful player. Under this 

 target each player places some object as a prize. Then all 

 go to one side of the room and throw three darts in succes 

 sion at the target. Whenever a player pierces the target so 

 that he must remove ins dart with his hands, he is entitled 

 to take anything he wishes from the pile of prizes. In this 



FIG. 121 Dart, way the game continues until all the articles are disposed of. 



