Ring and Pin Game -Qua'quallis

 Ring and Pin Game -Qua'quallis - Native American Indian Game 

A piece of bone with a hole in it, or a disk of wood with a hole in it, is attached to one end of a pointed stick by a string four to seven feet long .The stick is held in the hand. and with a quick movement the disk is thrown into the air. The game is to catch the disk, while in motion, on the pointed end of the stick. 

 The ring and pin game (ajagaq), has its main distribution towards the east,  but, thereafter, quite disappears in the Mackenzie area and in Alaska, to appear again among a single Koryak tribe the Kerek, and in a modified form among the Chukchi- Like Mathiassen. I consider it to be very improbable that as Thalbitzer supposes there is any connection between the ring and pin game and the object described by Nelson in 1899 359 1. One might rather seek the connection in the hoop and pole game, which Culin also associates with the ring and pin game, and which with its diffusion among the Chukchi,2 Alaskan,3 and Copper Eskimos;- fills up the gap between the occurrence of the ring and pin game in the east, and among the Chukchi and Koryak. It is not the first time that we find an ancient element preserved among the Kerek; we saw it earlier with regard to snow houses and snow knives. We must therefore reckon with the ring and pin game as a common Eskimo element. It also occurs in the Thule Culture. 

References:

1. Everyland 1913
2.THE CARIBOU ESKIMOS MATERIAL AND SOCIAL LIFE AND THEIR CULTURAL POSITION BY KAJ BIRKET SMITH I DESCRIPTIVE PART GYLDEDDALSKE BOGHANDEL NORDISK FORLAG COPENHAGEN 1929 

3.INDIAN HERO TALES RETOLD BY GILBERT L WILSON PH D FIELD COLLECTOR FOR AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY CITY OF NEW YORK Illustrated by FREDERICK N WILSON AMERICAN BOOK COMPANY NEW YORK CINCINNATI CHICAGO 1916