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etching a rod by holding it in a blaze after it is bound or protected in 
part by withes of another material, as grapevine, hazel, ete. 
The darts are about the size of arrows. Distance only counts. There are 
five distinct mulu’-i symbols placed on the darts, all named for or as symbols for 
certain animals. 
MARIPOSAN STOCK 
Yoxuts. Tule River reservation, Tulare county, California. (Cat. 
no. 70405, Field Columbian Museum. ) 
Lance of peeled sapling (figure 534), 664 inches in length. It is 
described by the collector, Dr J. W. Hudson, as a snow-snake or 
ground dart. The butt is weighted by being wound with iron wire. 
SSS 
Fig. 534. Snow-snake; length, 664 inches; Yokuts Indians, Tule River reservation, Tulare 
county, California; cat. no. 70405, Field Columbian Museum. 
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MOQUELUMNAN STOCK 
Torinacucim. Big creek, Tuolumne county, California. (Cat. no. 
70230, 70231, Field Columbian Museum.) 
Two flat, tapering sticks of wild cherry (figure 535), 38 inches in 
length, with tips burned with two rings; and whip, with buck- 
skin thong and stock, 314 inches in length. 
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Fia. 535. Throwing- or whipping-sticks, with whip and lash; length of sticks, 38 inches; length 
of whipstock, 31} inches; Topinagugim Indians, Tuolumne county, California; cat. no. 70230, 
70231, Field Columbian Museum. 
Collected by Dr J. W. Hudson, who describes them as throwing- 
or whipping-sticks used in a game called kuitumsi (kuitu, farthest 
one). 
The lance, la-ma-ku-yi-ta, is one-fourth of an inch in diameter at the butt, 
expanding to five-eighths of an inch at the tip. The different ones are marked 
to distinguish them. A buckskin thong, pe-hu-na-ha-a-ta (buckskin to whip),. 
is tied to a wooden handle. The farthest cast wins. 
