CULIN] HOOP AND POLE: BELLACOOLA 489 
PIMAN STOCK 
Pima. Arizona. (Cat. no. 76020, United States National Museum.) 
Stick or arrow with a feather at one end and a corncob at the other, 
sent by the National Museum, as an exchange, to the Peabody 
Museum, Salem, Mass. 
Collected by Dr Edward Palmer, who thus describes it as used in 
the game of quins: 
Any number can play. <A short split stick is first thrown in a slanting direc- 
tion. Then each one pitches his arrow to see who can come nearest to it. The 
one who does so holds the stick up while the others pitch. If the arrow touches 
the split stick and does not catch, the thrower loses nothing. If, however, the 
arrow remains in the split stick, it becomes the property of the holder. The 
game ends when one has all the arrows or when the players tire out. 
This is the only record of a game analogous to hoop and _ pole 
which I find among the tribes of the Piman stock. 
ROLL STAm, 
PUJUNAN STOCK z) 5 
i= * 
Nisurvam. Mokelumne river, 12 miles south of = *) ” 
Placerville, California. eee 
Dr J. W. Hudson describes a hoop-and-lance 
game under the name of nunt: 
Fic. 637. Position of 
The hoop, kiinfin’, consists of an outer hoop of oak players in hoop-and- 
wrapped with rawhide, 24 inches in diameter, with a lance game; Nishinam 
center hoop of rawhide. The former has ten radii of Indians, California; 
2 from a sketch by Dr 
rawhide attached to the inner hoop. The players [fig- J. W. Hudson. 
ure 637] roll the hoop in turn, and cast a 9-foot lance 
at it, after springing quickly to right angles of the hoop’s course. A bull’s-eye 
counts coup, or 10; between spokes, 5; lean up (by hoop), 2. The dead line 
and course is laid out previous to play. 
SALISHAN STOCK 
BELLACOOLA. Dean inlet, British Columbia. (Cat. no. ;tf; and 
;4+2,, American Museum of Natural History.) 
as 
Fig. 638. Cedar-bark game rings; diameter, 7} inches; Bellacoola Indians, British Columbia, 
cat. no. y$fy, y}¥y, American Museum of Natural History. 
Two rings (figure 638), wrapped with cedar bark, 74 inches in 
diameter. Collected by Mr George Hunt and Dr Franz Boas. 
