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their own value to each figure, the usual value being 5 points for one 
and 10 for the other figure, with double that number for a throw 
which crosses the two corresponding figures, and 100 tallies to the 
game. 
The wheel-and-stick game, in some form or another, was almost uni- 
versal among our Indian tribes. Another game among the Prairie 
tribes is played with a netted wheel and a single stick or arrow, the 
effort being to send the arrow through the netting as nearly as possi- 
ble to the center or bull’s-eye. This game is called ana’wati’n-hati, 
playing wheel, by the Arapaho. 
In a myth entitled “ Light-Stone,” related by Dr George A. Dorsey,* 
the following wheel games are enumerated: Big wheel, running- 
wheel, and medicine-wheel. 
In the story of “ The White Crow,” related by Dr A. L. Kroeber,’ 
there is the following reference to the wheel game: 
Close to the camp the people were playing with the sacred arrows and the 
sacred wheel. Two young men threw the wheel towards an obstacle and then 
followed it just as if they were running a race. 
In Doctor Dorsey’s® story, entitled “ Found-in-Grass,” are two 
twins, Spring-Boy and By-the-Door, who correspond with the twin 
War Gods. Spring-Boy is blown away by a terrific wind and is 
found by an old woman, who names him Found-in-Grass. He in- 
duces her to make him a bow and arrows and a netted wheel. She 
went out and cut a green stick and bent it into a ring, and also cut 
rawhide into small strips. From these articles she made a small 
netted wheel. One morning he gave his netted wheel to his grand- 
mother and directed her to roll it toward him and say that a fat 
buffalo cow was running toward him. Sure enough there came run- 
ning to him a red cow. This cow he shot with his arrows. The 
operation was repeated, resulting in his shooting a fat buffalo steer 
and a big fat bull; in this way a supply of meat was procured. 
Bracxreer. Blood reserve, Alberta. (Cat. no. 51641, Field Co- 
lumbian Museum. ) 
Ring, 3 inches in diameter, covered with buckskin, painted red, 
with eight spokes attached inside the rim at equidistant points, 
four being spirals of brass wire and four alternate ones of beads. 
Of the latter, one consists of two beads, one red and one blue; 
another of three, two green and one brass; and the third, of 
three, one red, one blue, and one red; and the fourth of three 
red. Collected by Dr George A. Dorsey. 
——— Montana. (Cat. no. 22768, Free Museum of Science and Art, 
University of Pennsylvania.) 
Ring (figure 577), 2 inches in diameter, wrapped with buckskin 
painted red, and having six interior spokes, three consisting 
“Traditions of the Arapaho, p. 181, Chicago, 19038. >bIbid., p. 275. <‘Ibid., p. 364. 
