Quoits- Bas

  Quoits- Bas- Native American Indian Game 

Two common sticks, about one foot high, are set up as pegs, as far apart as one can pitch. The rings are made of rope and are about four inches in diameter, half of each ring is bound with white, and half with green cord. If in falling the green part of the ring touches the peg, it counts twice as much, as if the white touched. 

BAS QUOITS 

Drive two stakes into the ground, at a distance of fifteen or twenty feet. The stakes should be about twelve inches above ground. The rings are made of corn husks, about five inches in diameter and overwrapped with colored cord. If a ring touches the stake it counts only half as much as it would if it were thrown to completely encircle it. 

QUOITS 

The following games are akin to our game of quoits, but they do not appear to have anything in common with it mapart from a general resemblance. At the same time, it is not unlikely that the game was  played with stones by the Tarahumare, Mohave, and Zuñi may have been borrowed from the Spaniards. The last-named play with iron disks, rayuelas. The Zuñi regard their game as Mexican. I have here incorporated a Navaho game. like ring toss which may have had likewise a foreign origin. 

References:

1. Everyland 1913
2. OUTDOOR STUNTS FOR YOUNG AND OLD oward By ARTHUR H STROUSE 1926 Published by ARTHUR H STROUSE PUBLISHING CO LAKESIDE OHIO 

3.GAMES OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS. BY STEWART CULLIN 1907

4. The Playground 1907