cuLIN] SNOW-SNAKE: DAKOTA 415 
Dr J. W. Hudson describes also these Indians as casting along the 
ground sticks, 4 feet long, made of willow or calacanthus. Each 
player has one cast. The one throwing the farthest, wins. The 
loser is thumped on the head with the knuckles. The game is called 
pakumship; pakiir, lance. 
SIOUAN STOCK 
Assrniporn. Fort Union, Montana. 
Mr Edwin T. Denig? says: 
The women slide long sticks on the snow. 
Crows. Crow reservation, Montana. (Field Columbian Museum.) 
Cat. no. 69657. Feathered dart, a piece of beef rib, painted red and 
incised with crossed lines, 64 inches in length, having two long 
twigs inserted at the squared end, upon which feathers dyed red 
are stuck; total length, 29 inches. 
Collected in 1901 by Mr S. C. Simms, who describes it as played 
by boys on the ice. 
Fig. 536. Game dart; length, 32} inches; Crow Indians, Montana; cat. no. 69653, Field Colum- 
bian Museum. 
Cat. no. 69653. Javelin (figure 536), a thin sapling, painted red and 
tipped with horn; length, 324 inches. 
Collected in 1901 by Mr S. C. Simms, who describes it as used in a 
man’s game. 
The stick is seized by the end, whirled rapidly with a vertical motion, and 
released when it gains momentum. The object is to make it go as far as 
possible. 
Daxwota (Ociata). Pine Ridge reservation, South Dakota. (Free 
Museum of Science and Art, University of Pennsylvania.) 
Fia.537. Feathered bone-slider; length, 25 inches; Oglala Dakota Indians, Pine Ridge reservation, 
South Dakota; cat. no. 22129, Free Museum of Science and Art, University of Pennsylvania. 
Cat. no. 22129. A fragment of beef rib (figure 537), 8 inches in 
length, with feathers stuck on two wooden pegs inserted in one 
end of the bone; total length, 25 inches. 
«Unpublished manuscript in the Bureau of American Ethnology. 
