CULIN] UNCLASSIFIED GAMES: MAYA 783 
This game corresponds in general principle with roulette, or rather 
with the spinning arrow. 
Eskimo (Centrat: Atvinirmivr and Kinieetu). West coast of 
Hudson bay, Keewatin. (Cat. no. 34,4, American Museum 
of Natural History.) 
Dr Franz Boas? says: 
Small hoops of whalebone (terkutuk) are joined crosswise [figure 1076]. 
Then they are placed on the ice or hard snow when the wind is blowing. The 
young men run to catch them. 
A similar game is mentioned by Rey. J. Owen Dorsey among the 
Teton Dakota (see p. 715). 
Fig. 107. Fig. 1076. 
Fig. 1075. Saketan, or roulette; Central Eskimo, Cumberland sound, Baffin land, Franklin; 
cat. no. IV A 6854, Berlin Museum fiir Vélkerkunde; from Boas. 
Fig. 1076. Whalebone hoops; diameter, 3} inches; Central Eskimo (Aivilirmiut and Kinipetu), 
west coast of Hudson bay, Keewatin; cat. no. 33;,b, American Museum of Natural History. 
West coast of Hudson bay, Keewatin. (Cat. no. 5£9,4, 
American Museum of Natural History.) 
Dr Franz Boas ¢ says: 
Boys play hunting seals [figure 1077]. Each of them has a small harpoon 
and a number of pieces of seal-skin with many holes. Each piece of skin repre- 
sents a seal. Each of the boys also has a hip-bone of a seal. Then one boy 
moves a piece of skin which represents a seal under the hole in the hip-bone, 
which latter represents the blowing-hole in the ice. While moving the piece of 
skin about under the bone, the boys blow like seals. Whoever catches with the 
little harpoon the piece of skin in one of the holes retains it, and the boy who 
eatches the last of the pieces of skin goes on in turn with his seals. The little 
harpoons are made by the fathers of the boys, the pieces of skin are prepared 
by their mothers. 
MAYAN STOCK 
Maya. Yucatan. 
Dr Alfred Tozzer” describes the following game: 
Wak pel pul, to throw six, is played with six sticks [figure 1078] made of any 
kind of wood, which has branches directly opposite each other. They each rest 
*Eskimo of Baffin Land and Hudson Bay. Bulletin of the American Museum of 
Natural History, v. 15, p. 111, New York, 1901. 
>In a letter to the writer, November 7, 1903, 
