390 GAMES OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS  [eru. ann. 24 
SALISHAN STOCK 
Suuswav. Kamloops, British Columbia. 
Dr Franz Boas“ says: 
Shooting matches are frequently arranged. An arrow is shot, and then the 
archers try to hit the arrow which has been shot first. Or a bundle of hay or a 
piece of bark is thrown as far as possible, and the men shoot at it. 
Tuomeson Inpians (Nriakyaramunk). British Columbia. 
Mr James Teit ¥ says: 
A shooting game was played as follows: A steep sandy bank was generally 
ehosen. Each player had two arrows. An extra arrow was fired at the bank by 
one of the party, to remain there as a target. Each player in turn fired his ar- 
rows at this target. The person who struck the notched end of the arrow-shaft or 
target, thereby splitting it in two, won the greatest number of points. The man 
who shot his arrow so that it stuck into the bank alongside of the arrow target, 
touching the latter all along the shaft, won the next highest number. A man was 
stationed near the target to call out the name of the shooter and the place where 
the arrows struck. The distance chosen to shoot from was according to the 
wishes of the archers, generally from 40 to 100 yards. In another game one 
man shot his arrow as far as he could, the others trying to shoot as near to it 
as possible, and the game was repeated. The man that could shoot the farthest 
and truest generally won. <A large open space with rather soft ground was best 
suited for this game, 
The Indians used to gather at a bluff close to Nicola river, and about 10 or 12 
miles from Spences Bridge. Here they tried to shoot their arrows over the top 
of the bluff and passers-by did the same. Only the strongest shooters could 
shoot easily over the bluff. 
SHOSHONEAN STOCK 
Horr. Mishongnovi, Arizona. 
Mr Charles L. Owen describes the following game: 
The players throw up two sloping embankments at a distance of 200 feet 
apart. These are 4 feet long and 16 to 18 inches high. In the center of each is 
placed a conspicuous mark, such as a piece of cotton cloth or a piece of bright 
tin, at which boys and girls shoot their arrows. The closest shot secures the 
shooter the first shot at the other target. 
Mr A. M. Stephen, in his unpublished manuscript, gives soya 
nanuveya as the Hopi, and ihttin as the Tewa name for casting 
throwing-sticks on the ground in imitation of a game where they cast 
arrows on the ground, the player trying to cause the fletching of his 
arrow to lie upon his opponent’s in a certain place. The following are 
terms of the game: 
Na-na’-vii-ya, to bet; na-na’-vii-lau-wi, betting, gambling; ho-hiih ak na-na’- 
vii-ya, to bet arrows; ho’-hii, arrow; pa-vaf-nai-ya, throwing sticks from a short 
distance to make them lodge in a rock crevice. 
“Second General Report on the Indians of British Columbia. Report of the Sixtieth 
Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, p. 641, London, 1891. 
+The Thompson Indians of British Columbia. Memoirs of the American Museum of 
Natural History, v. 2, p. 279, New York, 1900. 
