cuLIN] RING AND PIN: HAIDA 557 
Daxora (Teron). South Dakota. 
Rey. J. Owen Dorsey * describes the following as a game played by 
boys, younger married men, or women : 
Ta-stha un’pi, Game with the hoofs of a deer.—They string several deer hoofs 
together and throw them suddenly upward. They jerk them back again by the 
cord to which they are attached, and as they fall the player who has a sharp- 
pointed stick tries to thrust it through the holes of the hoofs, and if he succeeds 
he counts the number of hoofs through which his stick has gone. A number of 
small beads of various colors are strung together and attached to the smallest 
hoof at the end of the string. When a player adds a bead to those on the string 
he has another chance to try his skill in piercing the hoofs. When one misses 
the mark he hands the hoofs, etc.. to the next player. Each one tries to send 
his stick through more hoofs than did his predecessor. Two sides are chosen 
by the players. Each player offers articles as stakes for the winner. The 
season for playing is not specified. 
The women, when they play this game, bring their husbands’ goods without 
the knowledge of the owners, :nd sometimes lose all of them. When the men 
play, they sometimes stake all of their wives’ property, and occasionally they 
lose all. Now and then this game is played just for amusement, without any 
stakes. 
South Dakota. 
Dr J. R. Walker” describes this game under the name of woskate 
tasi he, game with foot bones, and gives the rules for the play. 
Fig. 740. Hokiwaxoxokke; length of implement, 15 inches; Winnebago Indians, Wisconsin; cat. 
no. 22158, Free Museum of Science and Art, University of Pennsylvania. 
Wixnesaco. Wisconsin. (Cat. no. 22158, Free Museum of Science 
and Art, University of Pennsylvania.) 
Seven phalangeal bones strung on a thong (figure 740), with a bone 
needle attached at one end and two triangular pieces of buckskin 
at the other; length, 15 inches. 
Collected by Mr T. R. Roddy, who says: 
The game is called ho-ki-wa-xo-xok-ke. 
SKITTAGETAN STOCK 
Hawa. British Columbia. 
Dr J. R. Swanton describes © the following game: 
Flipping a V-shaped object over and letting it drop (Liga si1an).—A straight 
stick was held in one hand, while a V-shaped piece of cedar about 8 inches long 
was held in the other hand by one of its arms, and so thrown into the air that 
it would fall astride of the stick. This V-shaped piece is called the Iga’ sLiga ‘fio. 
“Games of Teton Dakota Children. The American Anthropologist, v. 4, p. 344, 1891. 
® Journal of American Folk-Lore, vy. 18, p. 288, 1905. 
° Contributions to the Ethnology of the Haida. Memoirs of the American Museum of 
Natural History, whole series, vy. 8. pt. 1, p. 60, New York, 1905. 
