456 GAMES OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS  [e7TH. any. 24 
enter a furrow, which is called a break in the game, it is brought back and 
rolled again. It is always rolled first to the south and then to the north, and 
so on for hours until the game is finished. 
In throwing the poles, they are propelled by the right hand and guided with 
the left, the index finger of the right hand being placed against the end of the 
pole, which is held between the thumb and index finger. The pole, if hurled 
successfully, slides into the furrow beneath the wheel, and stops with its butt 
beneath it. If it passes entirely through the furrow or goes to the side this is 
also called a break in the game, and the poles are taken back to the base and 
hurled again, the wheel being rolled as before. It takes long practice and much 
skill to hurl the poles successfully. 
In carrying back the poles after they have been hurled they are thrown over 
the right shoulder. They are then stood on end upon the ground for a moment 
only, then hurled as before. : 
In counting, all points on each pole that fall on or within the rim of the 
hoop are counted, also all the points on the rim of the hoop and all the beads on 
the cord which fall within the edges of the 
pole. The points being counted, the game 
proceeds as before. This is continued for 
hours, until one side or the other gets the 
number of points agreed upon as deciding 
the game. There may be any odd number 
a U5 See pe 4 from 387 to 1,001. The game is sometimes 
ee played for the best two out of three or three 
out of five rounds, etc., two hurls south and 
one north constituting a play. 
Vocabulary: Baé-na’-e-josh’, let us play 
pole; bas’-sa, or pas’-sa, the hoop; bas’-sa- 
hen’, the counting end of the pole; bas’-sa- 
Fa. 596. Hoop for pole game; diameter, hewk’, hoop heads, the closely wrapped 
10 inches; White Mountain Apache Cord; da’-des-kish’, the points on the hoop 
Indians, Arizona; cat. no. 18618, Free rim; k16-h0-ka’-nil’-dish, the counting field, 
Museum of Science and Art, Univer- the three-ridged space; na’-é-josh’, the pole; 
sity of Pennsylvania. ene Se hee = = 
na’-e-josh’-ka, the pole ground; sA k0’-she- 
wal’-chél-kot, the base, or center, of the pole ground, from which the hoop is 
rolled and the poles are hurled; tk, one of the wraps (beads) on the cord; uk’- 
cho, the center bead on the cord. 
a 
Apacue (Waite Mountain). Arizona. (Cat. no. 18618, Free Mu- 
seum of Science and Art, University of Pennsylvania.) 
Hoop of sapling (figure 596), 10 inches in diameter, painted red, the 
overlapping ends lashed with cords, with a thong lashing be- 
tween. A thong wound with cord is fastened across the middle 
of the ring, the outer circumference of which is notched with 
eleven notches equally disposed in the space between the lashings. 
Collected by the late Capt. C. N. B. Macauley, U. S. Army, who 
described the game to the writer under the name panshka, pole game: 
Two men play. The ground is leveled and covered with hay or dried grass. 
One rolls the wheel and both throw their poles, points first, along the ground 
beside it, endeavoring to make the wheel fall on the butt of the pole. The 
counts are most intricate, depending upon the way in which the pole falls in 
