CULIN] HOOP AND POLE: CENTRAL ESKIMO 473 
around it, and when the winner of the last game gives a signal everyone tries 
to hit the hole with a stick. The one who succeeds has won. This game is 
always played amid great excitement. 
Fig. 616. Game of nuglutang; Central Eskimo, Cumberland sound, Baffin land, Franklin; cat. 
no. IV A 6821, Berlin Museum fiir Vélkerkunde; from Boas. 
Centra, Esxrao (Arviirmiur and Kiniperu). West coast of 
Hudson bay, Keewatin. 
Dr Franz Boas# thus describes the game of nugluktuq: 
A piece of ivory with a hole in the center is suspended from the top of the 
snow house. To its lower end a line with a heavy weight is attached, which 
serves to hold the piece of ivory steady. The men gather around this imple- 
ment, each holding a small stick with a sharp point. <A knife is laid down, 
which forms the stake of the game; and at the word “a’té” all the men try to 
hit the hole in the tooth with their little sticks. Whoever succeeds in hitting 
the hole wins the knife. Then he places another stake near by, and the play is 
“Eskimo of Baffin Land and Hudson Bay. Bulletin of American Museum of Natural 
History, v. 15, p. 110, New York, 1901, 
