480 GAMES OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS _ [ern ann. 24 
Knamaru. Oregon. (Cat. no. 37479, Free Museum of Science and 
Art, University of Pennsylvania.) 
Ring (figure 627) of bast, 7 inches in diameter. 
Collected in 1900 by Dr George A. Dorsey, who describes it as ¢ 
ring for woshakank, the kind used by boys. 
Fig. 626. : Fig. 627. 
Fia. 626, Game ring; diameter, 11 inches; Klamath Indians, Oregon; cat. no. 61682, Field Colum- 
bian Museum. 
Fig. 627. Game ring (boy’s); diameter, 7 inches; Klamath Indians, Oregon; cat. no. 37479, Free 
Museum of Science and Art, University of Pennsylvania. 
Upper Klamath lake, Oregon. (Field Columbian Museum.) 
Cat. no. 61641. Two rings, diameters, 3 and 4 inches, made of flexible 
bast; a small bow, 2 feet in length, and three small reed arrows, 
with long, sharp wooden points, of sage (figure 628). 
Collected in 1900 by Dr George A. Dorsey, who describes the 
game under the name of shii’kshuks. 
Fic. 628. Rings, bow, and arrows for ring game; diameter of rings, 3 and 4 inches; length of 
bow, 2 feet; Klamath Indians, Oregon; cat. no. 61641, Field Columbian Museum. 
It is usually played in a wickiup, by either men or boys, most 
commonly in winter, in the following manner: One of two boys sit- 
ting from 8 to 10 feet apart rolls a ring toward the other, who shoots 
at it with an arrow (nté’kish). In case he hits the ring the one who 
rolled it endeavors, by shooting, to dislodge the arrow therefrom. 
2Certain Gambling Games of the Klamath Indians. American Anthropologist, n. s., 
v. 3, p. 17, 1901. 
