GAMES OF DEXTERITY 
The various games of dexterity have been briefly reviewed in 
the introduction. In one of them—the game of hoop and pole— 
there are forms in which chance enters, but this is exceptional, and 
in general the class may be regarded as homogeneous with respect to 
the skill required in playing the game. 
ARCHERY 
I have classified under archery games played with arrows, darts, 
or analogous objects which are shot or tossed at a mark, excepting 
the hoop-and-pole or ring-and-dart game, to which the majority of 
other archery games appear to be related. Simple archery, or shoot- 
ing at a mark, does not hold a very conspicuous place among the 
Indian games with the bow and arrow, and but three examples (Mon- 
tagnais, Hopi, Omaha) are found among the following descriptions. 
The target is usually an important feature and among several tribes 
is allied to the ring of the ring-and-dart game. This is especially true 
of the grass targets used by the Grosventres, Crows, and Tetons, and 
probably also of that used by the Zuni. The Potawatomi game in 
which a bark target is buried is similar to the Zui game. The vucea 
ball of the Navaho, the bundle of hay or bark of the Shuswap, and the 
kelp of the Makah apparently belong to the same category. The 
Eskimo game in which darts are thrown at a hole in a wooden tar- 
get is probably a related form. Another common target is an arrow 
(Tarahumare, Assiniboin, Teton) or a stick set upright (Western 
Eskimo). In other games a shot arrow is the target (Shuswap, 
Thompson, Oglala), or arrows are shot out of a ring. ‘The Omaha 
shoot to dislodge arrows shot into a tree. Cacti, buffalo lights, and 
moccasins furnish other targets (Omaha). In another type of 
arrow game, arrows or darts are tossed (Apache, Eskimo, Hopi, 
Tewa, Zuni) or shot (Pawnee, Ponca) at an arrow tossed or shot 
to the ground so that they fall one across the other, usually so that 
the feathered ends cross. This game may be regarded as the antetype 
of the Zuni sholiwe, and possibly of all the Indian dice games. 
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