cunt] QUOITS: ZUNI COU 
Zus1. Zuni, New Mexico. (Brooklyn Institute Museum. ) 
Cat. no. 3096. Two stone disks, 44 and 5 inches in diameter, one a 
broken upper stone for the metate (figure 951). 
Cat. no. 3097. Flat stone disk, 4 inches in diameter; one side flat, 
the opposite side convex and marked with incised lines, as shown 
in figure 952. 
Fig. 951. 
Fic. 91. Stone quoits; diameters, 4; and 5 inches; Zuni Indians, Zuni, New Mexico; cat. no. 
3096, Brooklyn Institute Museum. 
FIG. %2. Stone quoit; diameter, 4 inches; Zuni Indians, Zuni, New Mexico; cat. no. 3097, Brook- 
lyn Institute Museum. 
The specimens just described were collected by the writer in 1903. 
The stones are called tankalanai. It is a winter game for men and 
boys. Each one has a quoit. They set a corncob up on the ground 
and put the stakes—turquoises, silver beads or buttons, or money—on 
top of the cob and throw at it in turn. The first player throws his 
stone from the cob at some distant mark, about as far as he can. The 
players then stand at this point and throw at the cob until one of them 
knocks it down. Then the one whose quoit fell nearest to the stakes 
(not the cob) wins all. After a player throws he draws a ring around 
his stone to mark where it fell when he takes it up to throw again. A 
stone, a chip, or any convenient object is put on the cob to lay the 
stakes on. 
Cat. no. 3098. Sandstone disk (figure 953), 34 inches in diameter, 
with a cross incised on one face and on the other the face of the 
sun. 
Fie. 953. Sun quoit; diameter, 3} inches; Zuni Indians, Zuni, New Mexico; cat. no. 3098, Brook- 
lyn Institute Museum. 
It was presented to the writer by Zuni Dick in 1903. He gave the 
name as tankalana yettokia, and said it was anciently used on Corn 
mountain by the Sun priest. 
Mrs Matilda Coxe Stevenson, in her paper on Zuni Games," states 
that the Zuni assért that this game came from Mexico. 
«American Anthropologist, n. s., v. 5, p. 496, 1908. 
