CULIN] HOOP AND POLE: TUSCARORA ATT 
out of the play. In this manner the game was continued until one of the 
parties had lost their javelins, which, of itself, determined the contest. 
Mr Andrew John, of Iroquois, New York, described the hoop-and- 
dart game as played at the present day by the Seneca as follows: 
The implements for the game consist of a hoop, gah-nuk-gah, made of sapling, 
without marks; and darts, gah-geh-dok, 4 or 5 feet in length, of which each 
player has usually two. 
The players line up equally on two sides about 10 feet apart. One party 
throws the hoop and the others launch their darts at it. The object is to stop 
the hoop as it rolls by impaling it. If a player misses, his dart is forfeited, but 
if it goes under the hoop, he retains it. 
Tuscarora. New York. (Cat. no. 16338, Free Museum of Science 
and Art, University of Pennsylvania.) 
Fig. 620. 
Fic. 619. Game hoop? diameter, 16 inches; Tuscarora Indians, New York; cat. no. 16338, Free 
Museum of Science and Art, University of Pennsylvania 
Fa. 620. Poles for hoop game; length,7 feet; Tuscarora Indians, New York; cat. no. 16338, Free 
Museum of Science and Art, University of Pennsylvania. 
Hoop (figure 619) made of an unpeeled bent sapling, tied with bark, 
16 inches in diameter, and six poles (figure 620), 7 feet in 
length. 
Collected in 1893 by the writer, who was informed that they were 
used in the game of nayearwanaqua. 
The ring is called okakna and the poles are called oota. Five or six play. 
The ring is rolled and all discharge their poles. The one whose pole stops the 
ring owns it. The others then shoot in turn, and the owner of the ring takes 
all the poles that miss it and shoots them at the ring, winning those that he puts 
through it. If two men stop the ring, they divide the poles. 
