cuLIN] RING AND PIN: ESKIMO 547 
Eskimo (Centrat). West coast of Hudson bay, Keewatin. (Cat. 
no. 10392, United States National Museum.) 
Ivory object in the shape of a fish (figure 721), with three holes at 
the head end and a single hole in the flat tail; length, 44 inches. 
An ivory pin, 44 inches in length, is attached by a cord of 
plaited sinew to a hole in one side of the fish. The object is to 
catch the fish at either the head or the tail. Collected by Capt. 
Charles Francis Hall, U. S. Navy. 
Fic. 721. Fish game; length of fish, 44 inches; Central Eskimo, west coast of Hudson bay, Kee- 
watin; cat. no. 10392, United States National Museum. 
Eskimo (Crentrat: Arvimirmiur anp Kriniretu). West coast of 
Hudson bay, Keewatin. (Cat. no. »8%,, ,$%,a, American 
Museum of Natural History.) 
Dr Franz Boas? describes the above objects as follows: 
The game of cup-and-ball is played with an implement quite different from 
the one used in Cumberland sound. . . . The ball consists of a narrow 
Fic. 722. Bone game; length of bone, 2j inches; Central Eskimo (Aivilirmiut and Kinipetu), west 
coast of Hudson bay, Keewatin; cat. no. 73{,, American Museum of Natural History. 
Fic. 723. Seal-bone game; length of bone, 4 inches; Central Eskimo (Aivilirmiut and Kinipetu), 
west coast of Hudson bay, Keewatin; cat. no. x$§,a, American Museum of Natural History. 
piece of musk-ox horn with feur holes drilled into its short edge. It is caught 
on a wooden or bone pin [figure 722]. The game is also played with the 
shoulder bone of a seal [figure 723]. 
*Eskimo of Baffin Land and Hudson Bay. Bulletin of the American Museum of 
Natural History, y. 15, p. 111, New York, 1901. 
