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face. Collected by Dr J. R. Walker, who describes them under 
the name of canpaslohanpi, used in the game of throwing sticks, 
woskate canpaslohanpi." 
Fig. 539. Girls’ throwing-stick; length, 63 inches; Oglala Dakota Indians, Pine Ridge reserva- 
tion, South Dakota; cat. no. 22132, Free Museum of Science and Art, University of Pennsyl- 
vania. 
Each player has but one throwing stick. Any number of persons may play. 
The game is played by grasping the stick at the smaller end, between the thumb 
and second, third, and fourth fingers, with the first finger across the smaller 
end, the flat side of the stick held uppermost. Then by swinging the hand 
below the hips the javelin is shot forward so that it will slide on the snow or 
ice. The game is to see who can slide the stick farthest. 
Fie. 540. Snow-snakes; length, 44 inches; Teton Dakota Indians, Pine Ridge reservation, South 
Dakota; cat. no. 7§35, American Museum of Natural History. 
Daxota (Teron). South Dakota. 
Rey. J. Owen Dorsey” describes the following games as played 
by boys in winter: 
Ptehéshte un’pi, buffalo horn game: The boys assemble at the corral or some 
other place where the cattle have been slaughtered, and gather the horns which 
have been thrown away. They kindle a fire and scorch the horns, noticing how 
far each horn has been burnt. That part of the horn is cut off, as it is brittle, 
and they make the rest of the horn very smooth by rubbing. They cut off all 
the small and pliable branches and twigs of a plum tree and insert the root end 
into a hole in the horn, tightening it by driving in several small wedges around it. 
At the small end of the plum stock they fasten a feather by wrapping deer sinew 
round and round it. The pteheste is then thrown along the surface of the snow, 
or it often goes under the surface, disappearing and reappearing at short inter- 
vals. Sometimes they make it glide over the ice. Stakes are frequently put up 
by or for the players. 
It4zipa kasl6han iyéya echun’pi, making the bow glide by throwing. They do 
not use real bows, but some kind of wood made flat by cutting with an ax, with 
a horizontal curve at the lowest part, and sharpened on the other side. At the 
head a snake’s head is usually made, or else the head of some other object. 
At the other end the player grasps it and hurls it, making it glide rapidly over 
the snow or grass. This is a game of chance, but the “ bows” are never 
staked, as they are too expensive. It takes so long to make one that the owner 
does not sell it, preferring to keep it as long as possible. 
The following is played by boys and young men: ° 
In the winter the boys collect the good ribs of animals that are near the 
village. They make gashes across them, and on one side of each rib they 
@Sioux Games. Journal of American Folk-Lore, y. 19, p. 32, 1906. 
°Games of Teton Dakota Children. The American Anthropologist, v. 4, p. 338, 1891. 
© Ibid., p. 343. 
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