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make a hole in which they insert two plum sticks. The small end of each 
plum stick they insert into the hole of a quill feather of some bird. The small 
end of each plum stick is bent backwards. Just at the fork of the two plum 
sticks the player grasps the toy, called hutanachute, making it glide over the 
snow or ice. Stakes are put down when desired, but sometimes they play just 
for amusement. Occasionally young men join the boys in this game. 
The following is an autumnal game of the boys or women: 
Pasl6hanpi, they shove it along. The boys play this game when the leayes 
become a rusty yellow. They go to a place where the smallest kind of willow 
abounds, and there they make a fire. They cut down the straightest of the 
willows, shaving off the bark with knives. Some color the willow in stripes. 
Others change the willows into what they call chan kablaskapi, i. e., wood flat- 
tened by beating, but what these are Bushotter does not explain. Much of this 
text is very obscure. Sometimes the young women play the game, at other times 
the men do; but each sex has its peculiar way of making the paslohanpi glide 
along. Sometimes they play for stakes. 
Dr J. R. Walker* gives the following rules for the game with 
winged bones, woskate hutanacute : 
Any number may play. Each player may have from two to four winged 
bones, but each player should have the same number. A mark is made from 
which the bones are thrown. The bones are thrown so that they may strike 
or slide on the ice or snow. The players throw alternately until all the bones 
are thrown. When all the bones are thrown the player whose bone lies the 
farthest from the mark wins the game. 
Doctor Walker describes woskate paslohanpi as the game of jave- 
lins (wahukezala) played by Sioux boys in the springtime, and states 
that there are two ways of throwing: One to lay the javelin across 
something, as the arm, or the foot, or another javelin, or a stump of 
log, or a small mound of earth, or anything that is convenient, and 
grasping it at the smaller end, shoot it forward; the other way is to 
grasp the javelin near the middle and throw it from the hand. 
Daxora (Yanxton). Fort Peck, Montana. (Free Museum of Sci- 
ence and Art, University of Pennsylvania.) | 
Cat. no. 37610. Three peeled saplings, burnt near the larger end 
with spiral bands and marks; length, 464 inches. 
Collected by the writer in 1900. The name is pasdohanpi.? 
Fia. 541. Feathered bone slider; length, 21 inches; Yankton Dakota Indians, Fort Peck, Mon- 
tana; cat. no. 37612, Free Museum of Science and Art, University of Pennsylvania. 
Cat. no. 37612. Two pieces of beef rib, 64 inches in length, each with 
two feathers inserted on pegs in one end; total length, 21 inches. 
One bears incised marks, as shown in figure 541. 
*Sioux Games. Journal of American Folk-Lore, y. 19, p. 31, 1906. 
° From pa-sdo’-han, to push or shove along. 
