cULIN] RING AND PIN 527 
The yucca ball is placed on the ground and the sticks are thrown at it from 
a short distance. The ball must be penetrated. If the first player strikes the 
ball, the stick is allowed to remain in place until the other party plays. If 
both sticks strike the ball, it is a draw. If the second stick fails to strike, it 
remains where it falls and the first player removes his stick from the ball] 
and throws again. The one who strikes the ball the greater number of times 
wins the game. 
Fig. 692. 
Fig. 693. 
Fic. 692. Game ring and dart; diameter of ring, 5 inches; length of stick, 30 inches; Zuni 
Indians, Zuni, New Mexico; cat. no. 3062, Brooklyn Institute Museum. 
Fig. 693. Yucca ball and corncob darts; Zuni Indians, Zuni, New Mexico; from Mrs Stevenson. 
H6'kimonne is one of the most precious games of the Zuni, it being among 
those offered to the Gods of War at the winter solstice. The game is frequently 
played for rains, and when it occurs in this connection sacred meal is sprinkled 
on the ground before the ball is placed; the one who first penetrates the ball 
lifts it by the stick, and, drawing a breath from it, offers thanks to the gods 
that the rains are soon to come. 
RING AND PIN 
The game which I have designated as ring and pin has a wide dis- 
tribution, similar to that of the hoop-and-pole-game, of which, as T 
have stated in the introduction, it may be regarded as a miniature and 
solitaire form. In the former game the ring or target is attached to 
a thong or cord by means of which it is swung in the air, the object 
being to catch it upon a pin or dart fastened to the other end of the 
thong. It is analogous to the well-known European game of cup and 
ball (Fr. bilboquet), in which the ball may be caught either in the cup 
or upon the pointed end of the catching implement. I have employed 
the name of ring and pin, suggested by Dr George A. Dorsey, as a 
