CULIN] BALL 561 
Cat. no. 3059. Ring wrapped with blue yarn (figure 747), 24 inches 
in diameter, having three smaller rings, 14 inches in diameter, 
suspended from it, and attached to the end of a twig, 174 inches 
long, by a blue yarn cord; accompanied by a pointed twig, 214 
inches in Jength, with a crosspiece tied near one end. 
The object is to throw this dart through one of the rings. The 
large ring, called tsam-mo-so-na, counts 4. One of the small rings, 
tied with a piece of red yarn and called shi-lo-wa, red, counts 1; 
another, tied with green, a-shai-na, counts 3, while the third small 
ring, which is plain black, quin-a, counts 2. 
All of these games were collected by the writer in 1903. They all 
bear the name of tsikonai ikoshnikia, ring play. 
Fig. 747. 
Fic. 746. Ring game; length of stick, 23 inches; Zuni Indians, Zuni, New Mexico; cat. no. 3060, 
Brooklyn Institute Museum. 
Fic. 747. Ring game: length of stick, 17} inches; Zuni Indians, Zuni, New Mexico; cat. no. 3059, 
Brooklyn Institute Museum. : 
BALL 
Under the general name of ball I have classed all ball games, 
howsoever played, and all games in which an implement analogous 
to a ball is employed. In none of them, with trifling exceptions 
which belong to distinct classes, is the ball ever touched with the 
hand, to do so being strictly forbidden by the rules of the game. 
The Indian ball games may be classified as follows: First, racket, 
in which the ball is tossed with a racket; second, shinny, in which 
the ball is struck with a club or bat; third, double ball, a game chiefly 
confined to women, played with two balls or billets tied together, 
tossed with a stick; fourth, the ball race, in which a ball or stick is 
kicked. In addition, subsidiary to the preceding and not general, being 
confined to a few tribes, we have: Fifth, football; sixth, hand-and- 
foot ball: seventh, tossed ball: eighth, juggling, and ninth, hot ball. 
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