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the other, and a score is made when 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 prize, 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 DART-THROWING GAME (nit-g’0!-hli-ga'-nitk)— 
(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. Itis placed about four feet from the floor in 
front of the summer entrance or under the smoke-hule in 
the roof. Each player has a long, slender dart, about three 
teet 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 his dart with his hands, he is entitled 
to take anything he wishes from the pile of prizes. In this 
Fic.121—Dart, Way the game continues until all the articles are disposed of. 
