564 GAMES OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS  [21H. Any. 24 
Cuiprewa. Fort Michilimackinac, Michigan. 
Alexander Henry “ says: 
Baggatiway, called by the Canadians le jeu de la crosse, is played with a 
bat and ball. The bat is about 4 feet in length, curved, and terminating in a 
sort of racket. Two posts are planted in the ground, at a considerable dis- 
tance from each other, as a mile or more. Wach party has its post, and the 
game consists in throwing the ball up to the post of the adversary. ‘The ball, 
at the beginning, is placed in the middle of the course, and each party endeavors 
as well to throw the ball out of the direction of its own post as into that of the 
adversary’s. 
Henry describes a game of ball played by the Ojibwa (Chippewa) 
and Saukies (Sauk), on the King’s birthday (June 4), 1763, at Fort 
Michilimackinac, through which, by strategy, that fort was taken. 
Michigan. 
Baraga ” gives the following definitions: 
Playing-ball or play-ball, pikwakwad, meaning primarily knot on a tree; ball- 
play, pagaadowewin; pagaaidowanak, Indian crozier to play with. 
J. Long ® says: 
Playing at ball, which is a fayorite game, is very fatiguing. The ball is about 
the size of a cricket ball, made of deer skn, and stuffed with hair; this is driven 
forwards and backwards with short sticks, about 2 feet long, and broad at the 
end like a bat, worked like a racket, but with larger interstices; by this the 
ball is impelled, and from the elasticity of the racket, which is composed of 
deer’s sinew, is thrown to a great distance: the game is played by two parties, 
and the contest lies in intercepting each other and striking the ball into a goal, 
at a distance of about 400 yards, at the extremity of which are placed two 
high poles, about the width of a wicket from each other: the victory consisting 
in driving the ball between the poles. The Indians play with great good 
humour, and even when one of them happens, in the heat of the game, to strike 
another with his stick, it is not resented. But these accidents are cautiously 
avoided, as the violence with which they strike has been known to break an 
arm or a leg. 
White Earth agency, Minnesota. 
Dr Walter J. Hoffman” describes the ball play at this place, 
where, he says, with a population of about 2,000 Indians, it is easy to 
muster from 80 to 100 ball players, who are divided into sides of equal 
number. 
If the condition of the ground permits, the two posts or goals are planted 
about one-third of a mile apart. . . . The best players of either side gather 
at the center of the ground. The poorer players arrange themselves around their 
respective goals, while the heaviest in weight scatter across the field between 
+A Dictionary of the Otchipwe Language, Cincinnati, 1853. 
¢ Voyages and Travels of an Indian Interpreter, p. 52, London, 1791. 
¢Remarks on Ojibwa Ball Play. The American Anthropologist, v. 3, p. 134, 1890. 
