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The father and mother left the hut together, and on seeking their daughter could 

 not iind her. "She has gone from shame," said the mother. "Where shall we find 

 her?" The father took the twig of a willow, made a ring of it, and covered it with 

 buckskin J this was thrown to the north, it returned again; he threw it to the south, 

 and the same result; he then threw it east, then west, the ring following all the 

 t innings and windings of the (laughter. The father followed the ring until it came 

 to the seashore. "She has drowned herself," said he, when he saw the ring enter 

 the ocean. 



The use of the perforated stones in games is noticed by Dr. Bowers. 1 

 He states that among' the relics exhumed from the graves on Santa 

 Rosa Island, California, were "perforated disks from the size of a 

 silver half-dollar to five or six inches in diameter. These were used in 

 games. It required either three or four to play a game with these 

 disks. Two individuals, standing at a given distance, rolled the disk 

 rapidly upon the ground between them, while one or two others stood 

 at the side with sharpened sticks and caught the disks as they were 

 whirled rapidly by." 



Nearly the same game seems to have been in vogue among the 

 Indians of Los Angeles County, California, who are of Shoshoui ex- 

 traction. Alexander S. Taylor thus describes it in the California Far- 

 mer and Journal of Useful Science, July 17, 18G3: "A game called 

 'hararienar,' consisted in rolling a ring, and two persons threw large 

 lances of reed, and if the ring lay on one or the other, so it counted. 

 Three times constituted a game." 



A similar game was popular also among the Arikara, as is stated by 

 II. M. Brackenbridgc. According to George Catlin it was also in vogue 

 among the Mandan, and among the Mohave of the Colorado, where 

 the hoop was made of "elastic cord," 2 probably rawhide. Dr. Hoffman 

 alludes to the probable use of discoidal stones in playing "chungke," 3 

 citing many references to show how widespread among our Indians is 

 the game. 



There can, indeed, be no doubt that the game of "iturursh," which 

 in its essential features answers to the game of "chungke" of the 

 Eastern Indians, was universal or at least very general, not only among 

 the California tribes, but also in one form or another among the other 

 tribes of the United States. In the Eastern United States, as Georgia 

 and Ohio, many of these disks are imperforate, while others are per- 

 forated. In the former case the game consisted in casting the lance so 

 that the disk should fall upon the point or rest near it. II. Schliemann 

 (Ilios, p. 581) found perforated stone disks or "quoits" at Hissarlik 

 which apparently much resemble the thin, flat form of the stones from 

 California. lie considers that they were used in the game of quoits, 

 which numerous allusions in the classic authors show to have been a 



•Ann. Report Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution for 1877, p. 319, 

 1878. 

 2 Pac. R. R. Rep., Vol. III. p. lit, 1856. 

 3 Am. Nat., p. 478, 1878. 

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