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THE PIMA INDIANS 



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alternately, so that first one set is in use and then the other. They 

 arc held loosely in the right liand and are thrown fron\ the end of the 

 nietate or any other convenient stone. If all fall red side up one 



point is scored by a mark in the sand. 

 If all are black two are counted. Win- 

 ning four points completes the game." 



TCILIKIWIKUT 



Tliis is the Gileho form of the wide- 

 spread dart -and -ring game. It is 

 not exclusively a woman's game, but 

 was sometimes played by them. The 

 younger generation knows nothing 

 about it. The apparatus consists of 

 a series of rings cut from cultivated 

 gourds (fig. 96). They vary in di- 

 ameter from 3 to 12 cm., and are 

 strung on a 2-ply maguey fiber 

 cord 50 cm. long. They are kept from slipping olT at one end by 

 a rectangular piece of gourd a little larger than the opening in the 

 smallest ring, which is at that end. At the other end of the string 

 is fastened a stick 20 cm. long, the outer end of which is sharp- 



FiG. 95. Staves used in game of ka-amlsakQt. 



KiG. 96. Dart-and-ring game. 



ened. The game is to toss the rings up by a swing and, while holding 

 the butt of the stick, thrust the dart through as many of them as jios- 

 sible. If the thrower fails she hands the apparatus to her opponent, 

 but she continues throwing as long as she scores, and counts the num- 

 ber of rings that are caught on the dart.. In the specimen collected 



o This is similar to the game described in Report National Museum, 1896, 742. 



