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SKITTAGETAN STOCK 
Hawa. British Columbia. 
Dr J. R. Swanton describes the following game: 
“Arrows stuck up” (Sq!aina’da). Some one shot an arrow up into the 
branches of a tree near the town until it stuck there. Then all would try to 
shoot it down, and generally succeeded in getting more up. He who knocked an 
arrow down owned it. 
TANOAN STOCK 
Trewa. Santa Clara, New Mexico. 
Mr T.S. Dozier ® writes as follows: 
On the bringing in of the corn and after the dance in honor of that event the 
first game of the season begins. Then the boys, from the smallest tot able to 
walk to well grown up ones, and the younger men may be seen at different places 
about the pueblo with the ah (bow) and tsu (arrow). As you go by you ask: 
“Hum-bi-o” (what are you doing?) and they reply “ I-vi-tsu-ah-wa” (playing 
the arrow). The game is a very simple one, as played by the Tewa, the bows 
not being the stronger ones formerly used, nor the very excellent ones now 
made by the Apache, Navaho, and Ute. A ring, varying in diameter from 5 to 6 
inches to 2 or 3 feet, is made on the ground, and the arrows are placed upright 
in the earth. The players take places around the ring and shoot for position. 
The ones coming nearest the place, generally marked by a stone or a piece of 
wood, from which the arrows will be shot at, will shoot first in their order. 
The shooting then begins, and in order to win, the arrow must be thrown 
entirely from the ring, and the ones winning the most arrows take positions in 
the next shooting and go on until the arrows in the ring are exhausted. 
WAKASHAN STOCK 
Makan. Neah bay, Washington. 
Dr George A. Dorsey ° describes the following games: 
Tlitsaktsaudl: This game (shoot-arrow) is also played by young men and, 
generally, in the spring of the year. Two goals are made, situated from 25 to 
30 yards apart. As, from the nature of these goals, no specimen could be 
collected, a description must suffice. Five pieces of kelp are thrust into the 
earth in a row, the center piece being about 14 feet high, the outer pieces about 
3 inches high, and the two intermediate pieces midway between the center and 
outer pieces. Over these is placed another piece of kelp, which is bent in a 
semicircular shape, with its extremities thrust into the earth about 2 feet apart. 
From two to six play, all standing in front of one goal and shooting at the goal 
opposite, the object being to hit any one of the upright pieces of kelp. If the 
representative of one side or the other shoots and strikes the goal, he shoots 
again. Should he miss, one of the opponents takes the arrow with which he 
shoots. Should he make a hit, he retains the arrow. The object of this... . 
game is to win arrows (quilah). 
@ Contributions to the Ethnology of the Haida. Memoirs of the American Museum of 
Natural History, whole series, v. 8, pt. 1, p. 61, New York, 1905. 
>Some Tewa Games. Unpublished manuscript in the Bureau of American Ethnology, 
May 8, 1896. 
¢ Games of the Makah Indians of Neah Bay. The American Antiquarian, y. 25, p. 70, 
1901. 
