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Those who Hved near the Pacific brought several cochayuyo, enough 

 for friends, also. A 12-year-old boy, not receiving any from any boy, 

 before school opened ran to the Pacific — a distance of 20 minutes on 

 horseback, which he made in 22 minutes on foot. He brought a supply, 

 shared it with others, and then sat busily making a ball (pis. 18, 19) ; 

 he finished it at recess time. "Nobody taught me how to make it," he 

 said ; "I have watched others make them ever since I was small." 

 Walking along the shores of the Pacific with some boys one day, 

 several picked up cochayuyo that the outgoing tide had left behind and 

 made balls while we were walking. The base of the ball is made by 

 means of loops and sling knots ; the remainder, by a tight over-under 

 weave. 



Cooper's sources name types of play common among children as 

 wrestling, foot races, top spinning by hand, swinging, hide-and-seek, 

 walking on stilts, guessing game, and two games suggesting European 

 influence resembling our jacks and blindman's buff (1946, pp. 

 740-741). 



Adults still play the traditional competive hockey game of palin or 

 palitun (chueca, in Spanish) played with hocky sticks (weno) and 

 balls (pali) (pi. 28, / and 2). Balls in the Museo Araucano de 

 Temuco were from i:| to 2 inches in diameter and were whittled out 

 of wood. Two organized teams of eight men each, usually young men, 

 oppose each other. A team from PuUingue played against one from 

 Carilingue in Conaripe area on November i, 1946. According to 

 Cooper's sources (1946, p. 739) men, women, and children formerly 

 played palin in organized, opposing teams of 10 to 15 players; the 

 game was by far the most important sport. Playing, Cooper writes, 

 was done "to the music of flutes and drums before big crowds of 

 spectators, for large wagers put up both by players and by spectators. 

 Various magicoreligious rites were carried out in connection with 

 the game : e.g., the ball was treated by the medicine man, the sticks 

 were fumigated with tobacco smoke and anointed with the blood of 

 an animal killed for the purpose. Sexual intercourse was avoided 

 before an important match game." 



The competitive Chilean game of futbal is being played today, 

 rather than the traditional game of palin ; it was being played by young 

 men in all areas I visited. (PI. 28, 3 and 4.) Two teams of eleven 

 players each oppose each other, and there is an umpire. Sometimes 

 Araucanians play against Chileans; more often they play against 

 Araucanians from another area. 



Occasionally men — never women — play a game of chance known 

 as el chupe. Two men were seen playing it while waiting for the 



