CULIN] ARCHERY: TARAHUMARE 389 
PIMAN STOCK 
Pima. Arizona. 
The late Dr Frank Russell * described the following boys’ games : 
Vatamumulite hukoyoliwia.—The players stand in a circle while a boy runs 
around the outside, dragging at the end of a string a bundle of rags. When 
the play begins each boy deposits an arrow in a heap, and the one who trans- 
fixes the bundle as it flies past is entitled to the pile of arrows. At the end 
the best marksman may have nearly all the arrows. The same runner con- 
tinues throughout the game, and receives a few arrows as compensation for 
his services. 
Okmaitcéké.—A bundle of grass, called woliwikke, is tied with willow bark 
so that it is about 125 mm. long and 50 mm. in diameter. The player tosses 
the bundle upward with his left hand while holding the bow in his right, ready 
to shoot the bundle before it can strike the earth. When the bundle is thrown 
forward instead of upward, it is called tcomilt maitcéké, * to shoot the bundle 
low.” 
Naof towe kukrsa, “ prickly-pear standing opposite.”—There are usually four 
players, though sometimes two engage in this shooting game. Prickly-pear 
leaves are set up opposite each other at a distance of about 30 yards. The 
game is to pierce the leaf with an arrow, and when four are playing the two 
partners share equally the winnings or losses. Arrows, bows, and such similar 
property as these ragged urchins possess are wagered. A bow is considered. 
worth from ten to twenty arrows, according to quality. 
Kuorsa.—Either two or four may play. The game consists in shooting an 
arrow so that it will lie on the ground at a distance of about 100 feet and 
then shooting two more arrows with the intention of casting them across the 
first. 
Taranumare. Chihuahua, Mexico. 
Dr Carl Lumholtz ” says: 
Very common is it to see two young men amusing themselves with shooting- 
matches, shooting arrows at an arrow which has been shot out into the ground 
some 50 yards off as a mark. This arrow, as well as the game itself, is called 
in Mexican Spanish lechuguilla. In Tarahumare the game is called chog’irali, 
and the target arrow chogira. The arrow coming nearest the chogira counts 
1 point ; and if it comes within four fingers’ width of the aim, it counts 4. The 
game is for 12 points. The distance is not measured from the points of the 
arrows, but from the winged parts, one man measuring for all. If a shot strikes 
so as to form a cross with the chogira, it counts 4. If it only touches the point 
of the latter in the-ground, it counts 2. If two arrows happen to form crosses, 
neither counts. 
Instead of arrows, three sticks may be employed. One is thrown out at a 
distance and is the chogira, and the other two sticks are thrown toward it and 
count in a similar way as the arrows. Often while traveling, the Tarahumare 
play this game, in either form, as they go along the road, perhaps for the entire 
distance. Two or three pairs may play together. 
“In a memoir to be published by the Bureau of American Ethnology. 
*’ Unknown Mexico, v. 1, p. 276, New York, 1902. 
