cunt] STILTS : HOPI T31 
SIOUAN STOCK 
Dakota (Teron). South Dakota. 
Rey. J. Owen Dorsey “ describes the following game, as played by 
girls and boys: 
Hohotéla, Swinging, is an autumnal game. The swing is attached to a lean- 
ing tree after the leaves have fallen. When four ropes are used, a blanket is 
laid on them, and several children sit on the blanket and are pushed forward. 
Those who push say ‘“ Hohote, hohote! Hohotela, hohotela!” as long as they 
push them. When two ropes are used, only one child at a time sits in the swing. 
STILTS 
Our information about the use of stilts is extremely meager, the 
name from the Wichita and two recent specimens, boys’ playthings, 
from Shoshonean tribes, being practically all, They 
are mentioned as existing among the Maya by Bishop 
Landa,’ who refers to a dance on high stilts in honor 
of the bird deity Yaccocahmut. 
This description was suggested to me by Dr Ed- 
uard Seler to explain the picture of a figure on what 
appears to be stilts, that occurs in plate xx1 of the 
Troano Codex (figure 957). 
A clue to the origin of these implements may be 
found in the employment of planting sticks as stilts 
by boys in Zuni. 
CADDOAN STOCK 
Wienira. Oklahoma. 
Dr Albert S. Gatschet communicated to me the fol- yt 
howd : Dee ehiie nication 1 FiG.957. Stilt-walk- 
owing name for stilts among terms for outdoor ~ ing (); Maya In- 
games from the Wichita language collected in 1892: — dians, Yucatan; 
= 5 m e a from pl. xx1, Co- 
Hak i’arits, stilts, walking wood. dex Troano. 
SHOSHONEAN STOCK 
Horr. Oraibi, Arizona. (Cat. no. 38703, Free Museum of Science 
and Art, University of Pennsylvania.) 
Pair of stilts (figure 958) hokia, two cottonwood poles, 544 inches 
in length, with a crotch wrapped with colored rags. 
Collected by the writer in 1901. They are used by boys. 
* Games of Teton Dakota Children. The American Anthropologist, v. 4, p. 329, 1891. 
> Relation des Choses de Yucatan, p. 223, Paris, 1864. 
