cULIN] HOOP AND POLE: WALAPAI 525 
persons chase it halfway, and at the same instant throw their poles. He who 
succeeds in piercing the hoop wins the game. 
Watarat. Walapai reservation, Arizona. (Cat. no. 15129, Field Co- 
lumbian Museum. ) 
Ring (figure 690), interior core wrapped with strips of cotton cloth, 
with buckskin outside, 64 inches in diameter; and two cotton- 
wood poles, 12 feet in length. The poles taper to a point and the 
butts are marked differently. 
Two other sets have rings wrapped with cord. One ring (cat. no. 
63344, figure 691) is 7 inches in diameter, and another (cat. no. 
63345), wrapped with coarse cord, is of the same diameter. Four 
poles (cat. no. 63344) are 13 feet 8 inches in length. 
These were collected by Mr Henry P. Ewing, who gives the follow- 
ing account of the game, which he describes under the name of tutava: 
Fic. 690. Game ring; diameter, 6} inches; Walapai Indians, Arizona; cat. no. 15129, Field 
Columbian Museum. 
Fic. 691. Game ring; diameter, 7 inches; Walapai Indians, Arizona: cat. no. 63344, Field 
Columbian Museum. 
The tu-ta-va game is played with two long poles, called tu-a-a, and a hoop, 
ealled tay-a-chu-ta. To play, two persons, always men, select a piece of ground 
about 100 feet long and 20 feet wide, smooth, level, and clear. Standing side by 
side at one end of this tract, facing the other end, the men hold their poles 
in both hands and start to run toward the other end of the ground. As they 
do so the one who holds the hoop throws, or rolls, it along the ground in front 
of them, and as it rolls each throws his pole, end foremost, giving it a sliding 
motion, so that it slides along the ground for some distance ahead of the run- 
ners. The object is to get the hoop to fall so that one edge of it will rest on 
the pole, while the other rests on the ground. Should this happen, it counts 
the contestant using that pole 1. Should the hoop fall so that it rests over 
the point of the pole, but the pole does not go through it, that counts 4 and 
wins the game, 4 points constituting the game. If the pole goes through the 
hoop it does not count anything, and unless the hoop lies fully up on the pole 
it does not count. It will be seen that this isa game of skill as well as of chance, 
and is, or was, often played for big stakes—ponies, guns, women, anything, 
everything. 
The game was very popular with the men, and twenty years ago, when the 
weather was fair, there was not a camp but a game of tu-ta-va could be seen 
near it all day long. It developed the muscles by running and throwing the 
pole. The Indians seldom play this game now. 
