516 GAMES OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS [ntH. any. 24 
Omana. Nebraska. (Cat. no. 37776, Peabody Museum of American 
Archeology and Ethnology.) 
Implements for the game of bhadhin zhahe, consisting of two sticks 
4 feet 2 inches in length, each with an are attached to one end 
to form a kind of barb, and a flexible ring wrapped with deer- 
skin, about 6 inches in diameter (figure 680). 
These were collected by Miss Alice C. Fletcher. 
The hoop is called wadhigizi and the sticks are known as wizhahe. 
Mr Francis La Flesche described the preceding game to the writer 
under the name of pauthin zhahae, or Pawnee zhahae, as played with 
Fiq. 680. Game ring and darts; length of darts, 4 feet 2 inches; diameter of ring, about 6 inches; 
Omaha Indians, Nebraska; cat. no. 37776, Peabody Museum of American Archeology and 
Ethnology. 
a hoop of buckskin, wathegezhae, about 4 inches in diameter, and a 
javelin, waijhahe, about 5 feet long: 
The latter has two little branches about 4 inches in length and bent backward 
at the point. Four pieces of rawhide are fastened to each of these, turned 
inward to form a kind of barbs. 
There are two contestants, one of whom throws the hoop, and, as it rolls along 
the ground, both endeavor to drive their javelins, which they grasp in the 
middle, through it. If the hoop is penetrated it counts 2, but if the hoop catches 
on one of the barbs it only counts 1. If the hoop is caught on both of the barbs 
it counts nothing. The game is usually 10. The one who scores throws the 
hoop. There is a long track, and the players run back and forth. The Omaha 
originally had the game under another name. 
Osace. Missouri and Arkansas. 
John D. Hunter says: ¢ 
Playing the hoop is performed on an oblong piece of ground, prepared 
for the purpose. Three parallel lines run the whole length of the plot, at about 
15 yards distance from each other. On the exterior ones, the opposing parties, 
which generally consist of from twelve to eighteen persons, arrange themselves 
about 10 paces apart, each individual fronting intermediate to his two opposite 
or nearest opponents. On the central line, extended to a few paces beyond the 
wings of the two parties, stand two persons facing each other. It is their part 
of the play alternately to roll a hoop of about the diameter of a common 
hogshead, with all their strength, from one to the other. The object for tri- 
umph between these two is, who shall catch the opponent’s hoop the oftenest, 
@Manners and Customs of Several Indian Tribes located West of the Mississippi, 
p. 273, Philadelphia, 1823. 
