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Assiniporn. Fort Union, Montana. 
Edwin T. Denig* says: 
Another game is played by the boys and young men which consists of plant- 
ing an arrow in the snow or ground and each throwing other arrows at it until 
struck, and he who strikes the planted arrow is winner of all the arrows then 
on the ground. 
Crows. Crow reservation, Montana. (Cat. no. 69649, Field Colum- 
bian Myiseum. ) 
Fig. 504. Arrow target; length, 12 inches; Crow Indians, Montana; cat. no. 69649, Field Colum- 
bian Museum. 
Archery target (figure 504), a wisp of sweet grass bent over in the 
middle and wound with sinew; length, 12 inches. 
This specimen was collected in 1901 by Mr S. C. Simms, who de- 
scribes the game as follows: 
The target is placed 40 feet away from the archer and shot at with an arrow 
from an ordinary bow. If he hits it, he takes up the target, and placing it be- 
tween the index and second finger of his left hand, cross- 
ing and resting on the arrow which is made ready to 
shoot, but pointed toward the ground. [Figure 505.] 
Raising the bow and arrow, with the wisp still resting 
on it, the wisp is released and the arrow discharged at 
it. If he hits it in the air, he scores an arrow. It is 
thus used in gambling, and is played in the spring by 
boys and men. The game is called bah-but-te’-de-o. 
Daxora (Ocriata). Pine Ridge reservation, 
South Dakota. (Cat. no. 22130, Free 
Museum of Science and Art, University 
of Pennsylvania.) 
Toy bow and arrow (figure 506), the bow rudely 
cut from hardwood, with a single curve and 
. . . . . AWS ., Ai 
a sinew string, 30 inches in length, and the 7's: 5: Crew Indian 
> playing grass - target 
arrow made of a sapling, with a blunt head, — game, Montana; from 
18 inches in length. photograph by Mr Ss. C 
\ Simms. 
Collected by Mr Louis L. Meeker, who de- 
“Report to Hon. Isaac I. Stevens on the Indian Tribes of the Upper Missouri. Unpub- 
lished manuscript in the library of the Bureau of American Ethnology. 
