560 GAMES OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS [ETH ann. 24 
string passing through a hole in the middle of the bone to a wooden pin (ka-a- 
pick). The bone is tossed upward and as it falls it is caught on the end of the 
pin. Whatever significance this game may have had in former times has evi- 
dently been lost, for, according to Williams, it is played merely for amusement, 
at any time, and by both sexes. 
YUMAN STOCK 
Mouwave. Colorado river, 
Arizona. (Cat. no. 
10086, Peabody Mu- 
seum of American 
Archeology and 
Ethnology.) 
Seventeen rings of pumpkin 
(figure 744), strung on a 
deerskin thong, with a 
wooden pin. Collected 
Fic. 744. Pumpkin-rind game; Mohave Indians, by Dr Edward Palmer. 
Arizona; cat. no. 10086, Peabody Museum of ; fy 7 a - 
American Archeology and Ethnology. The wooden pin is held in the 
hand, and the rings, made from 
the shell of the pumpkin, are swung and caught upon it. <A similar implement 
from the same tribe is contained in the United States National Museum. 
ZUNIAN STOCK 
Zuni. Zuni, New Mexico. (Brooklyn Institute Museum.) 
Cat. no. 3061. Ring made of twig wrapped with blue yarn (figure 
745). 5 inches in diameter, tied with blue yarn cord to a stick. 21 
inches in length. The object is to catch the ring on the end of 
the stick. 
Fic. 745. Ring game; length of stick, 21 inches; Zuni Indians, Zuni, New Mexico; cat. no. 3061, 
Brooklyn Institute Museum. 
Cat. no. 3060. Two rings (figure 746), one 2+ inches and the other 14 
inches in diameter, both wrapped with blue yarn, the larger one 
suspended over the smaller one and haying another yarn-wrapped 
ring inside of it, and both suspended by a blue yarn cord from 
the end of a twig 23 inches long; accompanied by a pointed stick. 
5} inches in length, with a crosspiece tied at one end. 
The object is to throw the dart through one or the other of the 
rings. The smallest ring, tsi-kon tso-na, counts 2, and the large or 
double ring, tsi-kon kwi-h, 4. 
