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the split ends and not barbed. The targets are two piles of kelp, 10 to 15 feet 
apart. These consist of some twenty pieces, the largest 23 inches in diameter, 
and from that down to less than the diameter of a finger, which lie transversely 
to the dart thrower. Standing up behind the bunch is a kelp head, which, 
however, is hidden by the pile from the player. If a thrower impales one or 
more kelp, both spear and kelp are thrown to him. If he misses, the opposite 
side throws. The winner is he who first gets all the kelp tubes. 
Makan. Neah bay, Washington. (Cat. no. 37384, Free Museum of 
‘ Science and Art, University of Pennsylvania.) 
Ring (figure 687) made of a core of grass wrapped with braided 
cedar bark, 12 inches in diameter. Collected by the writer in 
1900. 
Dr George A. Dorsey “ describes a game called dutaxchaias: 
This game is played by young men, 
generally in the spring, or it may be 
played at any time of the year. The 
ring (dutapi) is of cedar bark wound 
‘tightly and carefully braided. Two speci- 
mens were collected, one of which has 
seen considerable usage. In playing 
the game, two converging lines of from 
six to ten men on each side are formed. 
The man at the apex of the converging 
lines takes the ring in his hand and rolls 
it forward between the lines as far as he 
can; as the ring begins to lose its mo- 
mentum, and wabbles preparatory to 
falling, all shoot at it with an arrow 
(tsik’hati) from an ordinary bow 
Fic. 687. Game ring; diameter, 12 inches; (bistati). When the ring is struck by 
Makah Indians, Neah bay, Washington; 4) arrow of one side or the other 
cat. no. 373884, Free Museum of Science and F 5 3 5 
Art, University of Pennsylvania. (quilah = winner), the losing side pay 
over an arrow as forfeit. The game 
ends at any time by mutual consent, or when one side or the other has won all 
the arrows of the opposing side. 
Doctor Dorsey describes also the game of katikas—sharp-stick 
slanting: 
This game is . . . played by boys. On the side of a hill ten or more 
sharpened sticks are thrust into the ground at intervals of from two to three 
inches. Each has his individual set of sticks, or goal. One of the players rolls 
down the slope a large piece of kelp, 6 inches in length. If it so rolls as to impale 
itself on one of the sticks of one of the other players, he withdraws the stick 
from the earth and throws the kelp up in the air and attempts to catch it on 
the point of the stick. If successful, he retains the stick, which constitutes the 
game. 
«Games of the Makah Indians of Neah Bay. The American Antiquarian, y. 23, p, 69, 
1901. 
