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wound in with the ball when it has nearly the required size. A small piece of 
an oak twig is fastened to the end of the string, and the “yucca” is finished. 
The shape, I think, would be shown in the accompanying sketch [figure 502]. 
The stick and ball are thrown into the air, and the stick, being 
heavier, has a tendency to steady the ball as it falls to the 
BALL ground. While it is thus falling, the player shoots at it with 
bow and arrows, scoring if he is successful. 
STRING CADDOAN STOCK 
Pawnee. Nebraska. 
John B. Dunbar ¢ says: 
There were also frequent games played with arrows. One 
STICK person shot an arrow so that it should fall upon the ground 
at a distance of from 40 to 60 paces. The players then in 
succession endeavored to shoot so that their arrows should 
fall immediately across this arrow. Whoever succeeded took 
all the arrows discharged. If no one lodged an arrow upon 
it the player whose arrow lay nearest took all. Another 
eG eo game was for several players to take an arrow between the 
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Indians, St thumb and forefinger of the right hand and throw it so that 
Michael, Ari- it should strike in the ground 20 or 30 paces in advance, the 
zona; from feather end of the shaft sloping back toward the thrower. 
sketch by Rev. Th st sive Anal Sawn STS) TRIOS The GENET 4 43 
Berard Haile. en stepping forward another was thrown by each, so as to 
strike 4 or 5 feet beyond the first. Each arrow that failed to 
strike fast in the ground entailed a forfeit. 
Wicwira. Oklahoma. 
In the story of “ The Deeds of After-birth Boy,” as related by Dr 
George A. Dorsey,” reference is made to the two brothers playing an 
arrow game called * shooting-2-small-plaited-sinew-on-the-fly,” lia- 
kukes. The game was played for arrows. 
ESKIMAUAN STOCK 
Esxrmo (Western). Point Barrow, Alaska. 
Mr John Murdoch ¢ says: 
These people have only one game which appears to be of the nature of gam- 
bling. It is played with the twisters and marline spikes used for backing the 
bow, and already described, though Lieut. Ray says he has seen it played with 
any bits of stick or bone. I never had an opportunity of watching a game of 
this sort played, as it is not often played at the village. It is a very popular 
amusement at the deer-hunting camps, where Lieut. Ray often saw it played. 
According to him the players are divided into sides, who sit on the ground about 
8 yards apart, each side sticking up one of the marline spikes for a mark to 
throw the twisters at. Six of the latter, he believes, make a complete set. One 
side tosses the whole set one at a time at the opposite stake, and the points which 
they make are counted up by their opponents from the position of the twisters as 
they fall. He did not learn how the points were reckoned, except that twisters 
«The Pawnee Indians. Magazine of American History, v. 8, p. 750, New York, Nov., 
1882. 
>The Mythology of the Wichita, p. 92, Washington, 1904. 
¢ Bthnological Results of the Point Barrow Expedition. Ninth Annual Report of the 
Bureau of Ethnology, p. 364, 1892. 
