CULIN] RING AND PIN: PIMA 13) | 
In another specimen, cat. no. 61532, no strands of fiber project from 
the ball, the two ends being finished alike. Instead of the string 
being tied in a loop at the upper end, it is simply fastened in 
one of the wrappings. This ball is not wound from side to side 
with a circular wrapping of tule bark, but is wrapped about the 
center from eight to ten times with a tightly woven thread of 
that material. 
The three other specimens, cat. no. 61712 (plate xr), 61713, 61715, 
are much smaller than the specimens described, the largest 
being not over 24 inches in length. They are all made of bark 
of tule, tightly wrapped from end to end, and are considerably 
larger about the middle than at either end, thus having a sort 
of lozenge shape. In each of these three specimens the thread 
connecting the pin and ball is unusually well made and is very 
soft and pliable, while the pin consists simply of a porcupine 
quill. With all of these specimens in which no loop projects 
from the ball to which the string is attached, the object of the 
game is to strike the knot where the string is fastened to the ball. 
PIMAN STOCK 
Prva. Gila River reserve, Sacaton agency, Pinal county, Arizona. 
(Cat. no. 63290, Field Columbian Museum. ) 
Nineteen rings of gourd shell (figure 729), strung on cotton string, 
with a wooden pin, 9 inches in length, at one end, and a triangu- 
lar perforated piece of gourd shell, 
34 inches in length, at the other; 
total length, 23 inches. Collected 
by Mr 8. C. Simms, who gives the 
name as chelewegoooot. 
A specimen of the same implement 
in the United States National Museum * pe eS ge te te ae ae 
(cat. no. 218644), collected by Dr Arizona; cat. no. 63290, Field Colum- 
Frank Russell, has thirty-eight rings 8" ™™se"™ 
of dried gourd shell, ranging from 4+ inches to 1 inch in diameter, 
with an oval pendant at the end. The catching stick is 8} inches in 
length. 
The game is described by the collector? under the name of tculi- 
kiwe’kut : 
This is the Gilefo of the widespread dart-and-ring game. It is not exclusively 
a woman’s game, but was sometimes played by women. The younger generation 
knows nothing about it. The apparatus consists of a series of rings cut from 
cultivated gourds. They vary in diameter from 3 to 12 centimeters, and are 
strung on a two-ply maguey fiber cord 50 centimeters long. They are kept from 
slipping off at one end by a rectangular piece of gourd a little larger than the 
«In a memoir to be published by the Bureau of American Ethnology. 
