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ISLETA, NEW MEXICO 



r.vEE 1. — Containers in hidden-ball game 



with markings. (Fig. 1.) The "ball" is a piece of the bone of a deer 

 leg. The hiding is done as usual behind a blanket which is held up 

 curtainwise. There are songs: Bear and mountain lion are asked to 

 help. Much betting; stakes of blankets, horses, land. 



Papoahaka'piu (poaha, ball; ka'piu, burn him) is a hand ball 

 game played by men against women, married men against married 

 women, or boys against girls. It is played in the late autumn. The 

 ball of buckskin is stuffed with goose feathers. From behind the 



line A (fig. 2), a wo- 

 man bounces the ball 

 out with her hand, 

 and runs to B or C. 

 If a man touches her 

 with the ball, he 

 scores. AtBorCshe 

 is safe. If touched, 

 she may try to throw the baU into one of the set of 14 holes and, if 

 succeeding, preclude being scored against. Three scores, to win the 

 game. Betting. 



K'Qai' (cob there) is a woman's winter game, although men some- 

 times play it. Four, five, or six women will play. Half a corncob 

 is set up at B with two or three bead necklaces on top. A is a stone 

 mark. The players first throw a stone from B to A, the nearest to 

 A having the first turn. She then throws from A to B. If she 

 knocks over the cob, scattering the necldaces, 

 and the stone drops on the farther side of the 

 cob, not between the cob and the necldaces, 

 she wins the necklaces. When men play they 

 put up money. 



Formerly, girls plaj^ed a cow liorn(namaite') 

 game,* si.\ girls lined up on each side. The 

 only other detail that I have is that "the 

 winner carries the loser on her back to find the horn." 



The dart game is played — fiematie' (fiema, the feathered cob; tie', 

 throwing). It is played by three boys to a side. Two targets of 

 cardboard with a bull's eye in charcoal are attached to opposite house 

 walls. Betting. 



The Idck stick or ball is not used for racing, which is of the relay 

 type. The kick-ball (w'iv) is referred to, however, ritualistically and 

 in tale.' 



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FiGVRE 2.^Diagram of ball 



* Imaite' tawe. they i 

 •See pp. 279,368. 



) throwing at the cowhorn. 



