CULIN] HOOP AND POLE: MOHAVE 52¢ 
Noorkxa. British Columbia. 
Dr Franz Boas *¢ says: 
The games of the Nootka are identical with those of the neighboring tribes. 
_A favorite game is played with hoops, which are rolled over the ground. Then 
a spear is thrown at them, which must pass through the hoop (nutni’te). 
WASHOAN STOCK 
Wasno. Near Truckee, Nevada. 
Dr J. W. Hudson describes the hoop-and-spear game among this 
tribe, under the name of pululpaiyayapu, the hoop being called by the 
same name: 
The hoop is of willow covered with buckskin, 12 inches in diameter. One 
player rolls it rapidly past his opponent, who throws at it. Impaling the hoop 
counts one. Seven is the game, which is counted with sticks. The lance is 
ealled mak. 
Woodfords, Alpine county, California. 
Dr J. W. Hudson describes a man’s game in which a rolling hoop 
of willow is shot at with arrows by an opponent, under the name of 
pululpaiyapa: 
Pulul, hoop; baiyap, to shoot at. The game is also played by casting a lance 
at a target hoop. 
In another form of the game called pulultumpes—pulul, hoop; tumpes, to cast. 
the hoop is held in the hand and the opponent endeavors to catch between his 
fingers the small dart thrown by his opponent. In this game the outstretched 
fingers occupy the center of the hoop. In a variation of this an actual arrow 
is cast, the opponent being often burt 
in the hand. 
YUMAN STOCK 
Monave. Fort Mohave, Arizona. 
(Cat. no. 60264, Field Co- 
lumbian Museum.) 
Ring of bark, 64 inches in diame- 
ter, wrapped with cord (fig- 
ure 688); and two poles, 12 
feet in length, rounded and 
tapering from butt to tip. 
Collected by Mr John J. Me- 
Koin, who furnishes the following Tee Garis ving: diamoter. 6) laches: 
account of the game : Mohave Indians, Arizona; cat. no. 60264, 
Field Columbian Museum. 
This game is played with two poles 
and one ring. The poles are called co-tool-wa, and the ring cop-o-cho-ra. These 
poles are respectively marked with one or two circles carved upon the larger 
end. Each player chooses an umpire, who rules upon plays. They then agree 
upon the pole which each is to have and as to who is to make the first trial 
with the ring. Suppose a player with the pole marked with one circle gets 
Meeting 6f the British Association for the Advancement of Science, p. 590, London, 1891. 
