CULIN] RING AND PIN: MAKAH 559 
another, and consecutively toss the bone and try to catch it again by a partial 
rotation. Sometimes the femur is only swung by putting the stick under the 
projecting edge of the ball of the hip joint and then making the bone to rotate 
so that the point of the stick will pass into the foramen above the condyle. 
The stakes and winning number are arranged according to the number and 
wishes of the players. 
The bone is passed along the whole of one side before being thrown over to 
the opponents. If the player misses his first attempt he passes it to his next 
neighbor, but if he succeeds in catching the bone, as required, he goes on trying 
until he fails. 
If a side fails in making 40 wins by the united efforts of all its players, 
the opponents try. That side which first makes 40 takes all the stake which 
is equally divided. 
Name of femur of seal, hamut; name of stick, quiLklept. 
No string is used, as reported by Dr Dorsey in a similar game amongst the 
Makahs. 
Kwaxiurt. British Columbia. (Cat. no. ;£2,, American Museum 
of Natural History.) 
Femur of seal (figure 743), 44 inches in length, with small natural 
perforations; accompanied by a pointed stick 63 inches in length. 
Collected in 1897 by George Hunt, who describes it as a “ seal 
bone for divining.” 
Fig. 743. Seal bone for divining; length, 44 inches; Kwakiutl Indians, British Columbia; cat. 
no. g4f,, American Museum of Natural History. 
Nawiti, British Columbia. 
Dr C. F. Newcombe describes a game played by these Indians with 
a bone perforated with a small hole and a wooden pin: 
The bone is not tied to the pin. The point is placed in the hole and the bone 
tossed up, and the object is to catch it again on the point. There is no score. 
Both men and women play. The name is dsichdsk’ia. 
Maxan. Neah bay, Washington. 
Dr George A. Dorsey “ describes a game called kaskas: 
This game corresponds to the well-known cup-and-pin game of the Plains In- 
dians, which among the neighbors of the Makahs is modified into a game with a 
wooden pin and snake or fish vertebree. With the Makahs a humerus (kashabs) 
of the hair seal, which is perforated at each end, is attached by means of a 
«Games of the Makah Indians of Neah Bay. ‘The American Antiquarian, y. 23, p. 72, 1901. 
