. Bulletin. Ethnology. BULL. 30] GAMES 485 the mounds it is shown that this form of the game had a wide distribution. Stone rings were used until recently in a similar game by some of the tribes on the X. W. coast. C'up-and-pin game.âAn amusement analogous to the cup-and-ball, or bilbo- quet, of Europe. The game is universal among the Indians, and exists in a great. ESKIMO CUP-AND-PIN GAME variety of forms, all of which may be re- ferred to the spider-web shield. Among the Dakota the game is called the' deer-toe game' and played with a string of phalan- ^^^mmsKm CUP-AND-PIN GAME geal bones whi
. Bulletin. Ethnology. BULL. 30] GAMES 485 the mounds it is shown that this form of the game had a wide distribution. Stone rings were used until recently in a similar game by some of the tribes on the X. W. coast. C'up-and-pin game.âAn amusement analogous to the cup-and-ball, or bilbo- quet, of Europe. The game is universal among the Indians, and exists in a great. ESKIMO CUP-AND-PIN GAME variety of forms, all of which may be re- ferred to the spider-web shield. Among the Dakota the game is called the' deer-toe game' and played with a string of phalan- ^^^mmsKm CUP-AND-PIN GAME geal bones which are caught on a needle. The Eskimo use solid Ijone or ivory de- jects which are caught in the same way. Football.âThe game commonly spoken of as football is a ball race, chiefly con- fined to the S. W., in which a email wooden or stone ball is kicked around a long course, the original object having been the magical protection of the fields against sand storms. The Tarahumare derive their name from this game. Football proper exists among the Eskimo. Four-stick game.âA game in wdiich 4 marked sticks or billets of two different FOUR-STICK GAME sizes are* hidden under a flat basket, the object being to guess their relative positions. Hand game.âThe commonest and most widely distributed of Indian guessing games. Two (or four) bone or wooden . - â rr, cylinders, one plain and mSL y-y^'i one marked, are held in ^^4 the hands by one player, the other side guessing in which hand the un- marked cylinder is con- cealed. The game is HAND GAME commonly counted with sticks and is played to the accompani- ment of sonars or incantations. ^ Hidden-ball Game Hidden-ball game.âThe common, gues- sing game of the Southwestern tribes, played with four w'ooden tubes or cups, under one of which a ball or stick is hid- den. The opposing side endeavors to guess where the ob- ject is concealed. The four cups or tubes refer to the four world-quarters, and the game is sacred to the war gods. Hoop-
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