INDIAN GAMES. 125 



The Mojaves are accustomed to play a similar game 

 which has been described under the name " Hoop and 

 Pole". 88 A similar game was played by the Navajoes. 89 



The Yumas played a game with two poles fifteen feet 

 long and a ring a few inches in diameter. 90 Kane 91 says 

 that the Chualpays at Fort Colville on the Columbia "have 

 a game which they call *AlkollockJ 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, being from 

 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 

 wood and wound with cord. The ring is about three 

 inches in diameter, on the inner circumference of which 

 are fastened six beads of different 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 by 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 happens 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 Mag., Vol. 

 xvn, p. 463; Domenech, Vol. II, p. 197; H.H.Bancroft's Native Races, Vol. I, p. 

 393, p. 517 and note 133. The Martial Experiences of the California Volunteers by 

 Edward Carlsen, Overland, Vol. vn, No. 41, 2nd Series, p. 494. 



89 Major E. A. Backus in Schoolcraft, Vol. IV, p. -214. 



o W. H. Emory, U. S. and Mexican Boundary Survey, Vol. I, p. 111. 



81 Kane's Wanderings, p. 310; II. H. Bancroft's Native Races, Vol. I, p. 280. 



