CULIN] HOOP AND POLE: KLAMATH 479 
Doctor Hudson describes the following games: 
Da-ko’ ki, da-ko’, the hoop and ka, game. Played with a 16-inch hoop | fig- 
ure 624] bound with Apocynum cord, by four men usually, each armed with 
a 9-foot pole. A races the hoop swiftly to B [figure 625]. who tries to impale 
Fic. 624. Hoop and dart; diameter of hoop, 20 inches; length of dart, 8 feet; Pomo Indians, 
Mendocino county, California; cat. no. 70939, 70940, Field Columbian Museum. 
it as it passes. (The spear does not leave his hands in the thrust, else he 
passes out of the game.) If B misses, his place is at once taken by one of 
the substitutes behind him, who 
eatches the hoop. The player at B 
rolls to C, who attempts to impale it, reer 
thence C to D, and D to A. The ; | 
player last to miss wins the stakes. t 
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When a player misses he forfeits his ' Ae ‘ 
position and stake money at once, and : Ne 
his chances and stakes are appropri- i ; y Ne i 
ated by his substitute. , SK : 
In another game a 4-inch hoop is ' Not 
laid upon the ground, and lances 4 merteat : : eae 
feet long are cast upon it from a dis- D a 
tance of 50 feet. <A transfix counts 5 F1G. 625. Plan of field for hoop game; Pomo 
and « ring strike 2. Twelve counters Indians, California; from sketch by Dr J. W. 
are used. The game is called da-ko kaso 
nit’-alk or javelin-spearing hoop. 
A tule butt is erected and a 1-inch ring of twisted fiber hung in its center. 
Archers stand 60 feet away. <A center stroke counts 5, a hoop stroke 2. There 
uve ten counters. This is called da-ko tcox’-tau, ring target. 
LUTUAMIAN STOCK 
Kramaru. Upper Klamath lake, Oregon. (Cat. no. 61682, Field 
Columbian Museum. ) 
Ring (figure 626) made of the inner fiber of the tule rush, wrapped 
with tule bark, 11 inches in diameter. 
Collected by Dr George A. Dorsey, who describes it as used in the 
game of wéshakank.” The ring is shot at with arrows, not differing 
from those used by boys in their hunting. The object of the game is 
to hit the ring with an arrow. 
Another specimen (cat. no. 61681) is 6 inches in diameter. Rings 
of this size are used chiefly by boys. 
“Certain Gambling Games of the Klamath Indians. American Anthropologist, n. s., 
Vv. o, p. 17, 1901. 
