cuLIN] HOOP AND POLE: KWAKIUTL 521 
Perforated lava disk (figure 685), 5 inches in diameter and 12 inches 
thick. 
Collected in March, 1901, by Dr C. F. Newcombe, who describes it, 
under the name of laua‘iu, as used in a game: 
The Kwakiutl say that these stone disks are no longer used. According to 
Mr George Hunt, they were originally rolled in sets of four of different sizes 
and were shot at with bows and arrows. 
Dr Franz Boas, in his Kwakiutl Texts," describes a game played. 
with these stones between the birds of the upper world and the myth 
people, 1. e., “all the animals and all the birds.” The four stones 
were called, respectively, the “ mist-covered gambling stone,” the 
“rainbow gambling stone,” the “ cloud-covered gambling stone,” and 
the “carrier of the world.” The woodpecker and the other myth 
birds played on one side, and the 
Thunder bird and the birds of the 
upper world on the other, in two 
rows, thus ————_. The gambling 
stones were thrown along the middle 
between the two tribes of birds, and 
they speared them with their beaks. 
The Thunder bird and the birds of 
. 5 Fic. 685. Stone game ring; diameter, 5 
the upper world were beaten in this inches; Kwakiutl (Tenaktak) Indians; 
contest. This myth is given as an  ¢at. no. 37907, Free Museum of Science 
. 5 and Art, University of Pennsylvania. 
explanation of the reason for play- 
ing the game with the gambling stones. They are called laelae. 
Kwaxktutt. Nawiti, British Columbia. (Cat. no. 85851, Field Co- 
lumbian Museum. ) 
Four wooden darts (figure 686), 38 inches in length, in two pairs, 
distinguished by burnt designs. One pair has broad flat points 
and the other tapering blunt points. 
Collected in 1904 by Dr C. F. Newcombe, and described by him as 
used in the spear-and-kelp game, sakaqes. 
Fic. 686. Dart for spear-and-kelp game; length, 38 inches; Kwakiutl Indians, British Columbia; 
eat. no. 85851, Field Columbian Museum. 
The game is played by four players armed with spears, sikiak’ts, or darts of 
yellow cedar like the above, there being two sides with two players to a side. 
The darts are usually pointed with deer shin bones, 6 inches long, inserted in 
“Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History, whole series, vy. 5, p. 295, New 
York, 1902. 
