126 INDIAN GAMES. 



barrier, and so on until one party has obtained the number 

 agreed upon for the game." 



In his "Life among the Apaches," 92 Colonel Cremony 

 describes the hoop and pole game as played by the Ap- 

 aches. With them the pole is marked with divisions 

 throughout its whole length and these divisions are stained 

 different colors. The object of the game is to make the 

 hoop fall upon the pole as near the butt as possible, grad- 

 uated values being applied to the different divisions of the 

 pole. The women are not permitted to approach within 

 a hundred yards while the game is going on. 93 



Those who have described this game in the various 

 forms in which it has been presented dwell upon the fact 

 that it taxed the strength, activity and skill of the play- 

 ers. In this respect it rivalled lacrosse. In geographi- 

 cal range the territory in which it was domesticated was 

 nearly the same. 



There are many, doubtless, who would decline to rec- 

 ognize the discoidal stones of the mounds as chunkee 

 stones, but it can not be denied that the " nettecawaw" of 

 the Cherokees 94 , the "hoop and pole" of the Mojaves 

 and Apaches 95 , the second form of " spear and ring" de- 

 scribed by Domenech, 96 the " alkollock" of the Chualpays 97 

 and the chunkee of Romans and Adair are the same 

 game. 



08 Life among the Apaches, by John C. Cremony, p. 302. 



91 The Hawaiians were accustomed to hurl a piece of hard lava along narrow 

 trenches prepared for the purpose. .The stone which was called Maika closely 

 resembled a chunkee stone. It is described as being in the shape of a small 

 wheel or roller, three inches in diameter and an inch and a half thick, very smooth 

 and highly polished. This game appears to have been limited to a contest of 

 skill in rolling or hurling the stone itself. The additional interest which was 

 given by hurling the spears at it while in motion was wanting. Narrative of the 

 U. S. Exploring Expedition by Charles Wilkes, London, 1845, Vol. iv, p. 55. 



B Timberlake, p. 77. 



B Whipple, Pac. R. R. Rep., Vol. Ill, p. 114; Cremony, p. 302; Harper's Mag., 

 Vol. xvn, p. 463. 



98 Domenech, Vol. II, p. 197. " Kane's Wanderings, p. 310. 



