508 GAMES OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS [Eru. ann. 24 
Daxorta (Teron). South Dakota. 
Rev. J. Owen Dorsey,’ in his account of the games of the Teton 
Dakota children, describes the game with a rawhide hoop, tahuka 
changleshka unpi, among those played by boys in the spring: 
Occasionally in the early spring the people fear a freshet, so they leave the 
river bank and camp in the level prairie away from the river. The men hunt 
the deer, and when they return to camp the boys take part of the hides and cut 
them into narrow strips, which they soak in water; they make a hoop of ash 
wood, all over which they put the strips of rawhide, which they interweave in 
such a way as to leave a hole in the middle, which is called the “ heart.” The 
players form sides of equal numbers, and ti-oshpaye or gens usually plays 
against gens. The hoop is thrown by one of the players toward those on the 
other side. They are provided with sharp-pointed sticks, each of which is 
forked at the small end. As the hoop rolls they throw at it, in order to thrust 
one of the sticks through the heart. When one hits the heart he keeps the hoop 
for his side, and he and his companions chase their opponents, who flee with 
their blankets spread out behind them in order to deaden the force of any blow 
from apursuer. When the pursuers overtake one of the fugitives they strike him 
with the hoop as hard as they can; then they abandon the pursuit and return to 
their former place, while the one hit with the hoop takes it and throws it, 
making it roll towards the players on the other side. As it rolls he says to 
them: ‘“* Ho! tatanka he gle, Ho! there isa buffalo returning to you.”” When the 
stick does not fall out of the heart, they say the hoop belongs to the player 
who threw the stick. This is not a game of chance, but of skill, which has been 
played by large boys since the olden times. Bushotter% says that it is obso- 
lescent. 
Daxora (Trron). Pine Ridge reservation, South Dakota. 
Dr J. R. Waller ¢ describes the game of “ wands and hoops ” under 
the name of woskate pain yankapi. 
The name of the wands made of ash or choke-cherrywood, he gives 
as cansakala, and he says that while anyone may make these wands, 
it is believed that certain men can make them of superior excellence 
and give them magic powers, which may be exercised in favor of 
those who play with them. The rules of the game, with a story of 
its making and of its use to cause buffalo to come, are given by Dr 
Clark Wissler. 
Dawxora (YanKTON). Fort Peck reservation, Montana. (Cat. no. 
37606, Free Museum of Science and Art, University of Penn- 
sylvania.) 
Hoop of sapling (figure 673), 183 ‘mches in diameter, with four 
marks at equal distances on both sides of its circumference. 
These marks are incised, and painted red and blue, as follows: 
Cross, painted blue, okizati, fork; longitudinal band, painted 
blue, sapapi, black spot; longitudinal band with transverse cut, 
«The American Anthropologist, v. 4, p. 334, 1891. 
» George Bushotter, a full-blood Dakota, Mr Dorsey’s informant. 
© Sioux Games. Journal of American Folk-Lore, v. 18, p. 278, Boston, 1905. 
