396 GAMES OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS [ern ann. 24 
Tatauas. In this game a goal is also made of kelp, but instead of arrows 
short spears of red huckleberry, from 3 to 4 inches in length, are used. This 
game is played by two boys, each one sitting down on the beach facing his 
opponent, but at one side of him. B takes a piece of kelp stalk (wal’k-a-at) 
and thrusts it into the ground at his left side, at which A then hurls his spear. 
Failing to strike the goal, B takes A’s spear and passes his piece of kelp to 
A, who then thrusts it into the ground by his left side, when B hurls the spear. 
In case he is successful he retains the spear, otherwise the kelp is returned 
to B and thrown at by A, and the game goes on as before. The object of the 
game is to win all the spears of the opponent. 
WASHOAN STOCK 
Wasuo. Carson valley, Nevada. 
Dr J. W. Hudson describes the following game under the name of 
tsohotumpesh : 
An arrow is stuck in the ground slanting toward the marksman, who, 60 feet 
away, casts at it a 3-foot blunt arrow. One or more opponents take their 
turn, standing in the first caster’s tracks. The object is to strike the leaning 
arrow, or knock away an opponent’s arrow. Hither counts 1. To dislodge the 
target counts 5, or coup. Several can play, each using any number of darts 
agreed upon. 
YUMAN STOCK / 
Maricopa. Arizona. 
Mr Louis L. Meeker describes a game of grass shooting in which 
a wisp of grass is put upon the arrow where it crosses the bow. 
The bow is drawn and the wisp tossed up and shot in the air or 
the arrow is forfeited. 
ZUNIAN STOCK 
ZuxNt. Zuni, New Mexico. 
Mr John G. Owens * describes the following game: 
Sho-we-es-to-pa. The number of players is unlimited. Bach one has several 
arrows. One throws an arrow on the ground 8 or 10 feet in front of him, 
the others follow in turn, and, should the arrow thrown by any one cross that 
of another at the beginning of the feathers, he takes it. The limits of success 
are very small, and skillful throwing is required to win the arrows of another. 
This game is but little played at present, and I am doubtful whether the 
younger men of the tribe know how to play it. . . . The decline of the game 
is probably due to the decline of the-use of the bow and arrow, but I think it 
has left a descendant in 16-p6-ché-wa. This is played only by the boys. Instead 
of arrows they use pieces of bone 2 or 3 inches long with feathers tied to them. 
You may see five or six boys playing this game in all parts of the pueblo at 
any time during the summer. They generally touch the bone to the tongue 
before throwing it, to make it stick. The principle of the game is the same 
as that of the one just described. 
Mrs Matilda Coxe Stevenson ” describes the preceding game as fol- 
lows: 
«Some Games of the Zuni. Popular Science Monthly, v. 39, p. 40, New York, 1891. 
°>Zuni Games. American Anthropologist, n. s., v. 5, p. 490, 1903. 
