786 GAMES OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS  [ern. ayn. 24 
Kwaxtutt. Nawiti, British Columbia. (Cat. no. 85355, Field 
Columbian Museum. ) 
Ring of whalebone (figure 1081), 24 inches in diameter, supported 
on a stick in a horizontal position, and twenty-four unpainted 
sticks, 82 inches in length. 
Collected in 1904 by Dr C. F. Neweombe, who describes them as 
used in a game called quaquatsewa‘iu. 
The players drop the sticks held in one hand through the ring, to see who 
ean get the highest number through. This is done with the eyes- open, blind- 
folded, and blindfolded after turning round. 
Fic. 1081. Stick-dropping game; length of sticks, 8} inches; diameter of ring, 2} inches; Kwakiutl 
Indians, British Columbia; cat. no, 85355, Field Columbian Museum. 
Vancouver island, British Columbia. 
Dr Franz Boas? describes a game like the first in this series: 
Tl’n’mkoayu.—A stick, about 3 feet long, with a knob at its end, is thrown 
against an elastic board which is placed upright at some distance. If the stick 
rebounds and is caught, the player gains 4 points. If it rebounds to more than 
half the distance from the player to the board, he gains 1 point. If it falls 
down nearer the board than one-half the distance, or when the board is missed, 
the player does not gain any point. The two players throw alternately. Each 
has 10 counters. When one of them gains all the counters, he is the winner of the 
stake. When the stick falls down so that the end opposite the knob rests on the 
board, the throw counts 10 points. 
Another game he mentions as follows: ? 
T’é’nk-oayu, or carrying a heavy stone on the shoulder to test the strength of 
those who participate in the game. 
«Sixth Report on the Indians of British Columbia. Report of the Sixty-sixth Meeting 
of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, p. 578, London, 1896. 
> Ibid. 
