CULIN] HOOP AND POLE: NAVAHO 457 
reference to the wheel, the periphery of which is marked with rings of sinew. 
The details are so complicated that no civilized game nearly compares in com- 
plexity with this apparently simple sport. 
Cotvitte (Cuuanpay). Fort Colville, Washington. 
Paul Kane says: 
The principal game here is called Al-kol-lock, and requires considerable skill. 
A smooth level piece of ground is chosen, and a slight barrier of a couple of 
sticks, placed lengthwise, is laid at each end of the chosen spot, being from 40 
to 50 feet apart and only a few inches high. The two players, stripped naked, 
are armed each with a very slight spear about 8 feet long, and finely pointed 
with bone; one of them takes a ring made of bone, or some heavy wood, and 
wound round with cord; this ring is about 3 inches in diameter, on the inner 
circumference of which are fastened six beads of different colors at equal dis- 
tances, to each of which a separate numerical value is attached. The ring is 
then rolled along the ground to one of the barriers, and is followed at a distance 
of 2 or 38 yards by the players, and as the ring strikes the barrier and is falling 
on its side the spears are thrown, so that the ring may fall on them. If only 
one of the spears should be covered by the ring, the thrower of it counts accord- 
ing to the colored bead over it. But it generally happens, from the dexterity 
of the players, that the ring covers both spears, and each counts according to 
the color of the beads above his spear ; they then play towards the other barrier, 
and so on until one party has attained the number agreed upon for game. 
Navano. Keams canyon, Arizona. (Cat. no. 62535, Field Colum- 
bian Museum. ) 
Ring (figure 597) wrapped with sheep hide, 64 inches in diameter, 
and two poles (figure 598), about 9 feet in length, made in two 
pieces lashed together with hide, the sticks overlapping about a 
foot, and the ends of the lashing (figure 599) having crosspieces 
of hide fastened to them by bands of sheepskin. Collected by 
Mr Thomas V. Keam. 
St Michael, Arizona. 
The Reverend Father Berard Haile writes in a personal letter : 
Naé’azhozh, stick and hoop. The pole is decorated with buckskin strings, 
ealled “ turkey feet.”” The hoop is set in motion and the stick thrown through 
the rolling hoop. Points score as the stick falls on the turkey feet. Some sticks 
are decorated with claws of wildcats or of the mountain lion, bear, eagle, etc., 
which are attached to the strings, and as the claws catch the hoop a point is 
scored. 
Later Father Berard writes: 
I find that there were four different forms of n&’azh6ézh: First, n4’azhozh 
aqa’dest’loni, bound together, in which the stick or pole was cut in two and tied 
with buckskin, allowing the ends of the string to hang down; second, né’azhozh 
@ Wanderings of an Artist among the Indians of North America, p. 310, London, 1859. 
See also The Canadian Journal, p. 276, Toronto, June, 1855, where Kane describes this 
game in about the same words under the name of al-kol-loch as one that is universal 
along the Columbia river. There is a good picture of this game in Kane’s collection, no. 
65, at Toronto. The original sketches were made at Fort Colville, 
