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of two dark-blue glass beads with a bead of spiral brass wire 
next the center, and three consisting of pyramidal spirals of brass 
wire, two with red glass beads and one with a yellow glass bead 
next the center. 
This specimen was collected in 1900 by Dr George A. Dorsey, who 
states that the game is played with two iron-pointed arrows shot from 
a bow toward the ring, the count being determined 
by the proximity of the arrow to the ring. 
Buackreer. Montana. 
Dr George Bird Grinnell @ says: 
A favorite pastime in the day was gambling with a 
small wheel called it-se’-wah. This wheel was about 4 
a a5 inches in diameter, and had five spokes, on which were 
NES BOE Game ee strung different-colored beads, made of bone or horn. A 
diameter, 22 inches; : 
Blackfoot Indians, level, smooth piece of ground was selected, at each end of 
Montana; cat.no.22768, which was placed a log. At each end of the course were 
Free Museum of Sci- two men, who gambled against each other. A crowd 
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was rolled along the course, and each man at the end 
whence it started, darted an arrow at it. The cast was made just before the 
wheel reached the log at the opposite end of the track, and points were counted 
according as the arrow passed between the spokes, or when the wheel, stopped 
by the log, was in contact with the arrow, the position and nearness of the 
different beads to the arrow representing a certain number of points. The 
player who first scored 10 points won. It was a very difficult game, and one 
bad to be very skillful to win. 
-——— Southern Alberta. 
Rev. John MacLean” describes the hoop-and-arrow game as fol- 
lows: 
A board, 8 or 10 inches in width, is placed on its edge upon the ground, 
held in place by small stakes driven into the ground; and another, in the same 
fashion, about 12 feet distant. The contestants play in pairs. Each holds in his 
right hand an arrow, and one of them a small wheel, having fastened to it a 
bead, or special mark placed upon it. Standing at one end and inside the 
board, they run together toward the other board. The contestant having the 
wheel rolls it on the ground, throwing it with such force that it strikes the board: 
As the two men run they throw their arrows against the board, and as near 
the wheel as they can. When the wheel falls, they measure the distance between 
the point of the arrows and the bead or special mark on the wheel, and the 
arrow which lies nearest to this point has won the throw. They continue this 
running and throwing until the one who has reached the number agreed upon as 
the end of the game has won. The number of points made by the contestants 
are kept by means of small sticks held in the hands. Several pairs of contest- 
ants sometimes play after each other, and for days they will continue the game, 
surrounded by a large number of men, old and young, who are eagerly betting 
upon the result. 
“Blackfoot Lodge Tales, p. 183, New York, 1892. 
>Canadian Savage Folk, p. 55, Toronto, 1896. 
