CULIN) RING AND PIN: PAIUTE 553 
Mr Teit ¢ says also: 
A boys’ game was played as follows: A smal], but rather long bail of grass 
was attached to the hand with a string. In the same hand was held a wooden 
pin. The ball was thrown away from the hand, but pulled back again by the 
string. On the way back, the hand was raised so as to catch the ball on the end 
of the pin. This was done as often as possi- 
ble. After the first miss the ball had to be 
handed to the next boy. 
SHAHAPTIAN STOCK 
Fig. 731. Pactslewitas; total length 
Umatitita. Umatilla reservation, Ore- of implements, 6} inches; Umatilla 
‘ ore = Indians, Umatilla reservation, 
gon. (Cat. no. 37540, Free Oregon; cat. no. 37540, Free Mu- 
Museum of Science and Art, seum of Science and Art, Univer- 
5 ; 5 s sity of Pennsylvania. 
University of Pennsylvania.) 
Implements for the game of pactslewitas (figure 731), a piece of 
salmon vertebre (seven bones) 25 inches in length, perforated 
and strung on a cord with one loose bone; wooden pin at one end 
of the cord and a tuft of fur at the other. Collected by the 
writer in 1900. 
The pin is held in the fingers and the bones are swung in the air. Catching 
the single bone counts 1; the single bone and the others, 2. The game is 100. 
SHASTAN STOCK 
SHASTA. Hamburg bar, California. 
(Cat. no. =$%5, American Mu- 
seum of Natural History.) 
Twelve salmon bones (figure 732) strung 
on a cord which is tied to a pointed 
stick. A piece of red flannel is 
attached to the end of the cord. 
Collected in 1902 by Dr Roland B. 
Dixon. 
SHOSHONEAN STOCK 
Paiute. Pyramid lake, Nevada. (Cat. 
no. 19058, United States Na- 
tional Museum. ) 
Fig. 732. Salmon-bone game; Shasta 
Indians, California; cat. no. ,f3,, -\ bunch of tule stalks tied at the ends 
American Museum of Natural His- ( figure 13S), 42 inches in lengt h. 
tory. 7) 
with a wooden needle attached 
with a cord. Collected by Mr Stephen Powers, who describes it 
in his catalogue under the name of nadohetin. 
Every time the player catches it he has a right to thump his opponent on the 
forehead. 
a The Thompson Indians of British Columbia. Memoirs of the American Museum of 
Natural History, whole series, v. 2. p. 278. New York, 1900. 
