cULIN] HOOP AND POLE: DAKOTA 505 
handle (figure 668). Two bars of wood, 114 inches in length, are 
lashed across the stick, each with a smaller piece of curved wood 
with points turning toward the handle, as shown in the figure. 
The curved piece at the end and the body of the stick are 
wrapped with a thong, and the bars, ares, and exposed end of 
stick are painted black. There is a projection above the cross- 
bar, nearest the end to which the curved piece is affixed, against 
which the forefinger is pressed. A small square of black cloth 
is tied to the curved end of the stick. 
Fig. 668. 
Fic. 667. Ring for Elk game; diameter, 3} inches; Oglala Dakota Indians, Pine Ridge reserva- 
tion, South Dakota; cat. no. 22109, Free Museumof Science and Art, University of Pennsylvania. 
Fic. 668. Darts for elk game; lengths, 39} and 36 inches; Oglala Dakota Indians, Pine Ridge 
reservation, South Dakota; cat. no. 22110, 22110a, Free Museum of Science and Art, Univer- 
sity of Pennsylvania. 
Cat. no. 221100. A stick similar to the preceding, 36 inches in length, 
but painted red instead of black, and with a red instead of a black 
flag. The ends of the are at the tip are united to the body of 
the stick by a cord of smew. The crossbars are 64 inches in 
length. 
These are implements for the game of kaga woskate, or haka 
heciapi, the elk game. Collected by Mr Louis L. Meeker,¢ who states 
that the ring is tossed into the air, and the player tries to catch it 
on his stick. 
It is held in the hand with the forefinger pressing against a small projection 
that the best-made sticks bear near the center. Caught upon the point, it 
counts 10; if on the spur nearest the point, 5; on any other point, 1. The game 
is for any number of points agreed upon by the players. The Elk Game was 
played to secure success in the elk hunt. 
He continues: 
The Lakotas use a special hair ornament as a reward for victory in this 
game. The Cheyenne award it in the game next described (tahuka cangleska). 
The ornament [figure 564] is a miniature gaming hoop or wheel, tohogmu, as 
small as the matter can make it well, with spokes like a wheel, ornamented 
with porcupine quills and tied to a small lock of hair on one side of the crown 
by a buckskin string fastened to the center of the ornament. 
Col. Garrick Mallery,’ in his Picture-writing of the American In- 
Ogalala Games. Bulletin of the Free Museum of Science and Art, v. 3, p. 26, Phila- 
delphia, 1901. 
*’ Tenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, p. 547, 1893. 
