472 GAMES OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS  [ETH. ann. 24 
CHINOOKAN STOCK 
Wasco. Washington. (Cat. no. 37501, Free Museum of Science and 
Art, University of Pennsylvania.) 
Ring (seckseck) made of strips of inner bark (figure 615), with an 
internal cross, 44 inches in diameter. 
Collected by Dr George A. Dorsey, who 
gives the following account of the game: 
Shot at with arrows and played by youths on the 
appearance of the first run of salmon. When 
struck on the cross, the play is called tlia-mag-elo, 
to hit on the tlia-han, the cross; when struck on 
the periphery, la-ma-aihth, hits one. The game is 
played for arrows. 
CHUMASHAN STOCK 
Fic.615. Game ring; diame- 
ter, Ae cinches; Wasco Indi” “Sanna BaRpara. (Calitornia: 
ans, Washington; cat. no. = x 
37501, Free Museum of Sei- Dr Walter J. Hoffman says that the In- 
20 £ Tniversi ° - 7 
ence and Art, University of ians of Santa Barbara played a game with 
Pennsylvania, e =i 2: - 
a barrel-shaped stone ring 3 inches in diame- 
ter and 4 in length, at which the players shot arrows, the object being 
to penetrate the hole while the ring was in motion. The players 
stood on either side of the course. 
COSTANOAN STOCK 
Rumsen. Monterey, California. 
J. F. G. de la Pérouse ? says: 
They have two games to which they dedicate their whole leisure. The first, 
to which they give the name of takersia, consists in throwing and rolling a 
small hoop, of 8 inches in diameter, in a space of 10 square toises, cleared of 
grass and surrounded with fascines. Each of the two players holds a stick. 
of the size of a common cane, and 5 feet long; they endeavor to pass this stick 
into the hoop whilst it is in motion; if they succeed in this they gain 2 points; 
and if the hoop, when it stops, simply rests upon their stick, they gain 1 by it; 
the game is 3 points. This game is a violent exercise, because the hoop or 
stick is always in action, 
ESKIMAUAN STOCK 
Eskimo (Crnrrat). Cumberland sound, Baffin land, Franklin. 
Dr Franz Boas says: ° 
A favorite game is the nuglutang [figure 616]. A small, rhomboidal plate of 
ivory with a hole in the center is hung from the roof and steadied by a heavy 
stone or a piece of ivory hanging from its lower end. The Eskimo stand 
° Bulletin of the Essex Institute, v. 17, p. 32, note 12, Salem, 1885. 
*A Voyage around the World in the years 1785, 1786, 1787, and 1788, v. 2, p. 223, 
London, 1798. La Pérouse refers to two tribes of Monterey, the Achastians (Rumsen) 
and Eecclemachs (Esselen), the latter belonging to the Hsselenian family. 
© The Central Eskimo, Sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, p. 568, 1888. 
