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lance, hoat, is thrown underhand with both hands. The ring is covered either 
with buckskin or bark. 
Doctor Hudson describes also a ring-and-arrow game under the 
name of tokoinawas: 
This game is played with a hoop or ring, to-ko-in, 6 inches, more or less, in 
diameter and wrapped with buckskin. One player rolls the ring to another 
opposite him, while two others on opposite sides, at right angles to the course, 
shoot at it with arrows. The one who transfixes the ring or strikes it oftenest 
in ten rolls wins. 
Yoxurs. Tule River reservation, Tulare county, California. (Cat. 
no. 70404, Field Columbian Museum. ) 
Wooden lance, 8 feet 3 inches long, and a small round wooden block 
or peg (figure 634). 
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Fic. 634. Implements for lance-and-peg game; length of lance, 99 inches; Yokuts Indians, Tulare 
county, California; cat. no. 70404, Field Columbian Museum. 
Collected by Dr J. W. Hudson, who thus refers to them as used in 
a lance-throwing game, aikiwitch: 
Bach player casts two lances at a peg lying loose on the ground 50 feet away. 
Six or less play. The lance is call ai-yak-ta-ka and the peg kets-ma-na witcb-it. 
The last man is thumped on the head with the bare knuckles, and the one mak- 
ing the highest score may strike as often as he desires. 
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Cuowcuttia. Chowcehilly river, Madera county, California. 
Dr J. W. Hudson describes the following game under the name of 
pachitu : 
A ring of Asclepias, 24 inches in diameter, called he-wi’-ta, is rolled, the caster 
racing, and casting after the ring a 10-foot lance, called hu-wo’-ta. A “lean” 
counts 3, a “ balance” 5, and a “ transfix ” 12. 
Torrnacucim. Big creek, 2 miles north of Groveland, Tuolumne 
county, California. (Cat. no. 70234, Field Columbian Mnu- 
seuma. ) 
Darts and hoop for a game. 
Collected by Dr J. W. Hudson, and described as follows by the col- 
lector, under the name of teweknumsia : 
The implements consist of a plain lance, ho-cha, 10 feet in length, marked on 
the butt end with proprietary marks, in paint, and a hoop of oak, 30 inches in 
diameter, bound with buckskin, te-wek- 
CASTER num-sia. The game is played by four 
players, who face each other on opposite 
sides of a square 90 feet across. The 
casters [figure 635], each of whom have 
: aa at four lances, stand opposite to each 
game; Topinagugim Indians, Tuolumne 
county, California; from sketch by Dr Other, while two assistants, one for each 
J. W. Hudson. side, roll the hoop across. As the wheel 
rolls, both casters throw at it, each try- 
ing to transfix it. If one is successful his opponent comes across to his place, 
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CASTER 
Fic. 635. Plan of field for hoop-and-lance 
