CULIN] RING AND PIN: CREE HOD 
Mr Boyle gives the name as pe-peng-gun-e-gun, stabbing a hollow 
bone. 
Cree. Coxby, Saskatchewan. (Cat. no. 15459, Field Columbian 
Museum. ) 
Eight phalangeal bones strung on a thong, with a wire needle, 64 
inches in length, at one end, and an oblong flap of buckskin, 6} 
inches in length, perforated with 14 holes, at the other (figure 
702). 
These were collected by Mr Phillip Towne, who describes the game 
under the name of tapa whan, stringing the bone cups: 
The object of the game is to catch one or more of the bone cups on the point 
of the bodkin or to thrust the bodkin into a hole in the buckskin thong. The 
game is of 50 points, which may be made as follows: One for each bone cup or 
hole, except the two center holes in the buckskin thong, which count 20. To 
cause the bodkin to enter one of the four small holes in the last bone cup is 
equivalent to game. 
Fig. 703. 
Fic. 702. Tapa whan; total length of implement, 28 inches; Cree Indians, Saskatchewan: cat. 
no. 1459, Field Columbian Museum. 
Fic. 703. Cup and pin; total length of implement, 40 inches; Cree Indians, Saskatchewan; cat. 
no. 15130, Field Columbian Museum. 
Union Lake reserve, Saskatchewan. (Cat. no. 15130, Field 
Columbian Museum. ) 
Nine phalangeal bones, painted blue, strung on a thong, with a long 
wire needle, 121 inches in length, at one end, and a diamond- 
shaped flap of buckskin, 5 inches in length, perforated with 
fifty-two small holes and a larger hole in the middle, tied at the 
other end (figure 703). Collected by W. Sibbold. 
Muskowpetung reserve, Qu’appelle, Assiniboia. (Cat. no. 
61993, Field Columbian Museum.) 
