CULIN] HOOP AND POLE: HOPI 495 
SHOSHONEAN STOC’% 
Bannock. Rossfork. Idaho. 
Mr Thomas Blaine Donaldson has given the writer a photograph 
of the Bannock playing the hoop game, taken by him in 1890. He 
says: ¢ 
The picture [figure 647] shows a boy hurling a spear at a rolling hoop and a 
smaller youngster watching him. There were about ten full-grown bucks 
watching the youngsters playing, and the older men would take the hoop and 
hurl it along the ground and try to spear it. They took regular turns and when 
they failed to spear the hoop, which was usual, because it took some skill, the 
other contestants laughed uproariously. 
Fig. 647. Bannock Indian boy playing hoop and pole, Idaho; from photograph by Mr Thomas 
Blaine Donaldson. 
Fic. 648. Corn-husk game ring; diameter, 5 inches; Hopi Indians, Arizona; cat. no. 128904, United 
States National Museum. 
Horr. Arizona. (United States National Museum.) 
Cat. no. 128904. Ring of corn husk (figure 648), 5 inches in diame- 
ter; accompanied by a number of corncob darts, each with two 
feathers and sharp points of hard wood. Collected by Mrs 
Matilda Coxe Stevenson. 
Fic. 649. Corncob darts; Hopi Indians, Arizona; cat. no. 69024, United States National Museum 
Cat. no. 69024. Corncob darts (figure 648), similar to the above. 
Collected by Maj. J. W. Powell. 
*In a letter to the writer, under date of February 25, 1901. 
