CULIN] HOOP AND POLE: DAKOTA 509 
painted blue, ska, white; seven transverse notches, the outside 
and the middle ones blue, the others red, bahopi, notches. 
Two pairs of sticks (figure 674), made of saplings, 25 inches in 
length, wrapped on both sides of the middle with cotton cloth 
and secured in pairs by a 
strip of cotton cloth fas- 
tened in the middle. One 
pair is painted red and 
has a small piece of red 
flannel fastened to each of 
the sticks. The other pair 
is blue, with similar black 
flags. Collected by the 
writer in 1900. 
These implements were made 
by Siyo Sapa, Black Chicken, 
a renegade Hunkpapa and a 
former member of Sitting 
Bull’s band. He gave the name 
of the game as pain yanka 
i Fig. 673. Game hoop; diameter, 13 inches; Yank- 
ichute and that of the darts as ton Dakota Indians, Montana; cat. no. 37606, 
ichute.“ Free Museum of Science and Art, University of 
Pennsylvania. 
The maker stated also that 
in the old time buffalo hide and deer skin were never employed in 
making the implements for this game; always, instead, something of 
no value, as old rags. He said that many years ago the Indians saw 
two buffalo bulls rolling this ring. 
Fia. 674. Darts for hoop game; length, 25 inches; Yankton Dakota Indians, Montana; cat. no. 
37606, Free Museum of Science and Art, University of Pennsylvania. 
Dakota (Yankton). Fort Peck, Montana. (Cat. no. 37607, Free 
Museum of Science and Art, University of Pennsylvania. ) 
A ring made of cotton cloth, wrapped round and round, and 
painted red; diameter, 3 inches. Two sticks, 32 inches in length, 
wrapped with rags, and having a curved piece fastened at 
one end and a cord stretched across like the string of a bow, 
connecting it with the stick; also two crosspieces, fastened at 
about equal distances from the ends, across the stick. These 
* Pa-i®’-ya"-ka, to shoot or throw a stick through a hoop when rolling; painyanka 
ki¢u"pi, the game of shooting through a hoop; i-eu’-te, something to shoot with, as the 
arrows one uses in a game. (Riggs’s Dakota-Hnglish Dictionary, Washington, 1890.) 
