CULIN] RING AND PIN: THLINGCHADINNE 543 
A Crescent City Indian, whom the writer met at Arcata, Cal., gave the name 
of this game as tsluk, while a Mad river (Wishoskan) Indian at Blue lake 
ealled it ret-char-i-wa-ten. 
Fig. 714. Kiolkis; length of stick, 12 inches; Hupa Indians, Hupa valley, California; cat. no. 
37209, Free Museum of Science and Art, University of Pennsylvania. 
Dr J. W. Hudson described the preceding game under the name 
miltokot, “ with to stab.” : 
A bone awl held in the right hand jabs at a tightly rolled bunch of grass 
thrown up on the end of a string. As long as a player succeeds, he continues. 
There are ten counters. The game is common between youths and maids, and 
is said to symbolize the desire for a partner. The grass ball is often replaced 
by fish vertebrie. 
Kawcuopinne. Fort Good Hope, Mackenzie. (Cat. no. 857, United 
States National Museum.) 
Eight phalangeal bones (figure 715), worked and polished down to 
conical form, strung on a thong, having a heart-shaped piece of 
buckskin with thirty-two holes cut in it attached at one end and a 
polished bone needle, 74 inches in length, at the other; total 
length, 26 inches. Collected by Maj. R. Kennicott. 
Fig. 715. Phalangeal-bone game; length of implement, 26 inches; Kawchodinne Indians, Fort 
Good Hope, Mackenzie; cat. no. 857, United States National Museum. 
TuurnccHapiInne. Fort Rae, Mackenzie. (Cat. no. 10844, Museum 
of the State University of Iowa.) 
The late Dr Frank Russell,* the collector, wrote under “ ecagoo ” in 
his catalogue of ethnological material secured in the Hudson’s Bay 
Company’s territory : e 
No. 10,844 consists of three small pieces of bone [figure 716] rudely fashioned 
in hollow cones through which passes a slender thread of twisted sinew. Each 
eone is 1.5 inches long and 0.8 inch in diameter at the larger end. They are 
¢ Explorations in the Far North. State University of Iowa, p. 181, 1898. 
