cULIN] HOOP AND POLE: HOPI 497 
noticed on several occasions that shortly before and after the Oaqél ceremony 
the game was played more than at any other time. 
Cat. no. 63176. Corn-husk ring 2} inches in diameter; and corncob 
feather dart, 12 inches in length, with wooden pin (figure 651). 
Collected by Dr George A. Dorsey in 1897. The label reads as fol- 
lows: 
The Hopi variant of a game which has a wide distribution throughout the 
western part of the United States and Canada. 
Fic. 651. Corn-husk ring and corncob dart; diameter of ring, 2} inches; length of dart, 12 
inches; Hopi Indians, Oraibi, Arizona; cat. no. 63176, Field Columbian Museum. 
Among the Hopi tribes the game is played almost exclusively by boys. Among 
ether aboriginal tribes of the West men play, often for stakes of considerable 
magnitude. The wheel used by the Hopi is called wipo-nélla, which simply) 
means corn-husk wheel. The same wheel is also used for many other purposes 
and in certain ceremonies. At times the arrow is the usual one owned by 
every Hopi boy, and is shot from a bow. More often a special form of double 
arrow, passing into a corncob and terminating in a single point, is used. This 
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