448 GAMES OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS  [eru. ann. 24 
eight times. Collected by Mr R. N. Wilson. In another similar 
specimen in the same museum, cat. no. 69352, the thong passes 
thirty times around the edge. 
Pircan. Alberta. (Cat. no. 64350, Field Co- 
lumbian Museum.) 
Iron ring (figure 583), 34 inches in diameter, 
wrapped with buckskin and having eight 
rows of colored glass beads of three each, ar- 
ranged within, like the spokes of a wheel. 
Tralt ReeeIBORded | ities The beads are of different colors, as follows: 
diameter, 3: inches; Three white; three red; two black and one 
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bere) CHEN ek GLE: dark blue; tw 0 green and one black; three 
Field Columbian Mu- yellow; three light blue; two black and one 
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red; two green and one blue. Collected by 
Mr R. N. Wilson, who describes it as used in a ring-and-arrow game. 
Sauk anp Foxes. Iowa. (Cat. no. 32%;7, American Museum of Nat- 
ural History.) 
Four rings of elm bark (figure 584), 2, 24, 8, and 34 inches in 
diameter, and a little bundle of elm bark (figure 585), 3 inches 
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Fig. 584. Game rings; diameters, 3}, 3, 2}, and 2 inches; Sauk and Fox Indians, Iowa; cat. 
no. 32%;, American Museum of Natural History. 
Fig. 585. Bundle of elm bark used as target; length, 3 inches; Sauk and Fox Indians, Iowa; 
cat. no. s8$;, American Museum of Natural History 
Fic. 586. Bow and arrows used in ring game; length of bow, 38inches; length of arrows, 25 
inches; Sauk and Fox Indians, Iowa; cat. no. 8;, American Museum of Natural History. 
long. Bow (figure 586), 3 feet 2 inches in length, with two 
bands of rabbit fur, designated by its color as the property of 
the Blacks, one of the two divisions of the people (White and 
Black) ; four arrows, 25 inches in length. 
The players, men or boys, divide into two sides, each side having 
four rings and each player four arrows. The rings are rolled, and 
shot at with the arrows; each arrow must pierce the ring and hang 
