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BALCONY HOUSE BAMOA 



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of the Pueblo Indians, employed in mak- 

 ing the wafer bread, are smooth, oblong 

 slabs set over the fireplace. See Abbott 

 in Surveys West of the 100th Merid., vii, 



HOPI BAKING STONE. (mjnDELEFf) 



1879; Gushing, Zuni Breadstuff, in Mill- 

 stone, Nov. 1884; Holmes in Smithson. 

 Rep. 1899, 1901; Mindeleff in 8th Rep. 

 B. A. E., 1891. (w. H. H.) 



Balcony House. A cliff house, compris- 

 ing about 25 rooms, situated in Ruin can- 

 yon. Mesa Verde, s. Colo. It derives its 

 name from a shelf or balcony which ex- 

 tends along the front of two of the houses, 

 resting on the projecting floor beams. 

 See H. R. Rep. 3703, 58th Cong., 3d sess., 

 1905. 



Bald Eagle's Nest. A Delaware (?) vil- 

 lage, taking its name from the chief, Bald 

 Eagle, formerly on the right bank of Bald 

 Eagle or., near the present Milesburg, 

 Center co. , Pa. It is marked on La Tour's 

 map of 1784 and described by Dav, Penn- 

 sylvania, 201, 1843. 



Ballokai Pomo ('Oat valley people.' — 

 Powers). A subtribe or division of the 

 Pomo, formerly living in Potter valley, 

 Mendocino CO., Cal. 



Bal-lo' KaiP6-mo.— Powers in Cont.N. A. Ethnol., 

 111,1.55,1877. PoamPomo. — Ibid., 156. Pomapoma. — 

 Kroeber, inf'n, 1903. Poma pomo. — Ibid. Po- 

 mas.— McKee (1851) in Sen. Ex. Doe. 4, 32d 

 Cong., spec, sess., 144,1853. Pome Pomos, — Pow- 

 ers in Overland Mo., ix, .504, 187'2. Pone 

 Pomes.— Hittell, Hist. Cal., i, 730, 1885. 



Ball play. The common designation of 

 a man's game, formerly the favorite ath- 

 letic game of all the eastern tribes from 

 Hudson bay to the Gulf. It was found 

 also in California and perhaps elsewhere 

 on the Pacific coast, but was generally 

 superseded in the W. by some form of 

 shinny. It was played with a small ball 

 of deerskin stuffed with hair or moss, or 

 a spherical block of wood, and with 1 or 

 2 netted rackets, somewhat resembling 

 tennis rackets. Two goals were set up at 

 a distance of several hundred yards from 

 each other, and the object of each party 

 was to drive the ball under the goal of the 

 opposing party by means of the racket 

 wdthout touching it with the hand. After 

 picking up the ball with the racket, how- 

 ever, the player might run with it in his 



hand until he could throw it again. In 

 the N. the ball was manipulated with a 

 single racket, but in the S. the player 

 used a pair, catching the ball between 

 them. Two settlements or two tribes 

 generally played against each other, the 

 players numbering from 8 or 10 up to 

 hundreds on a side, and high stakes were 

 wagered on the result. Preceding and 

 accompanying the game there was much 

 ceremonial of dancing, fasting, bleeding, 

 anointing, and prayer under the direction 

 of the medicine-men. The allied tribes 

 used this game as a stratagem to obtain 

 entrance to Ft Mackinaw in 1 764. Numer- 

 ous places bearing the name of Ball Play 

 give evidence of its old popularity among 

 the former tribes of 

 the Gulf states,Avho 

 have carried it with 

 them to their pres- 

 ent homes in In- 

 dian Ter., where it 

 is still kept up with 

 the old ceremonial 

 and enthusiasm. 

 Shorn of its cere- 

 monial accompani- 

 ments it has been 

 adopted by the Ca- 

 nadians as their na- 

 tional game under 

 the name of la 

 crosse, and by the 

 Louisiana French 

 Creoles as raquette. 

 The Indians of 

 many tribes played 

 other games of ball, noteworthy among 

 which is the kicked ball of the Tarahu- 

 mare, which, it is said, gave the name to 

 the tribe. Consult Adair, Hist. Am. 

 Inds., 1775; Bartram, Trav., 1792; Catlin, 

 N. A. Inds., 1841; Mooney, Cherokee 

 Ball Play, Am. Anthrop., in, 1890; Culin, 

 Games of N. Am. Inds., in 24th Rep. 

 B. A. E., 1905. Lumholtz, Unknown 

 Mexico, 1902. See Games, (.r. m.) 



Balsa. See Boats. 



Bamoa {ba 'water,' moa 'ear' or 'spike' 

 ( of corn ) : ' spike in the water ' ; or pref er- 

 ably ba, and maioa ' bank ' : 'on the bank 

 of the river.' — Buelna). According to 

 Orozco y Berra, a pueblo "founded by 

 the Pima who came with Cabeza de Yaca 

 and his companions on that famous ex- 

 pedition which gave rise to the story of 

 the Queen of Quiviraandthe Seven Cities. 

 Settle(l on the shore of the river [Sina- 

 loa] , they received in after times a goodly 

 number of their compatriots who, drawn 

 by the fame of the missionaries before 

 the latter reached their country, placed 

 themselves in the way of receiving Chris- 

 tianity. They speak the Pima and gen- 

 erally the Mexican, being also well ac- 

 customed to the Castilian tongue." 



Rackets, etc., Used in Ball Play. 

 (t, Iroquois; 6, Passamaquoddy; 

 c, Chippewa; d, Cherokee 



