388 GAMES OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS  [eru. any. 24 
both at Cape Nome and St Michael, was from 5 to 6 inches in length and from 
three-fourths of an inch to an inch in diameter at the larger end. Figure [503] 
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 1 for 
each dart that sticks in the bull’s-eye. These darts are nearly 2 feet in length 
and have a tapering wooden handle, largest 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. 
KERESAN STOCK 
Keres. Acoma, New Mexico. 
An Acoma Indian at Zuni, named James H. Miller, informed the 
writer that the Acoma Indians have an arrow game in which they 
shoot at grass tied up. 
KIOWAN STOCK 
Kiowa. Oklahoma. (Cat. no. 159918, United States National Mu- 
seum. ) 
Six arrows made of a single piece of maple wood, 29} inches in length 
(plate rx). 
The heads are carved and painted. According to the collector, Mr 
James Mooney, the arrows are thrown with the hand, like a javelin, 
and the player who throws farthest, wins. It is a man’s game. 
The incised designs, painted red, yellow, green, and blue, are in 
part easily recognizable as the calumet with primer, bow, and arrow, 
the lightning, and the symbols of the four directions on the upper- 
most arrow, which are painted from left to right with the colors red, 
green, blue, and yellow. Mr Cushing identified others as the war 
staff, or standard, and shield—day or dawn signs with turkey tracks: 
day signs with stars; horse tracks and the man sign. Mr Mooney, 
in reply to my inquiry, informed me that the Kiowa attach no special 
significance to these carved arrows, and were unable to explain the 
designs. 
MOQUELUMNAN STOCK 
Torinacucim. Big creek, 2 miles north of Groveland, Tuolumne 
county, California. 
Dr Hudson describes these Indians as playing also a game of 
shooting at an arrow set up, under the name of thuyamship. 
The two contestants, armed with bows and blunt arrows, stand beside an 
arrow stuck in the ground and shoot alternately from a distance of about 170 
feet. Two other players stand near the arrow targets and mark the shots. 
The players shoot back and forth until one of the two arrow targets is struck 
and broken. 
