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The warriors, very scantily attired, young and brave, fantastically painted, 
and women decorated with feathers, assemble around their commanders, who 
are generally swift on the race. They are to take the ball either by running 
with it or throwing it in the air. As the ball falls in the crowd the excitement 
begins. The clubs swing and roll from side to side, the players run and shout, 
fall upon and tread each other, and in the struggle some get rather rough treat- 
ment. 
When the ball is thrown some distance on each side, the party standing near 
instantly pick it up, and run at full speed with three or four after him at full 
speed. The others send their shouts of encouragement to their own party: “ Ha! 
ha! yah!” ‘“A-ne-gook!’’—and these shouts are heard even from the distant 
lodges, for children and all are deeply interested in the exciting scene. The 
spoils are not all on which their interest is fixed, but is directed to the falling 
and rolling of the crowds over and under each other. The loud and merry 
shouts of the spectators, who crowd the doors of the wigwams, go forth in one 
continued peal, and testify to their happy state of feeling. 
The players are clothed in fur. They receive blows whose marks are plainly 
visible after the scuffle. The hands and feet are unincumbered and they exer- 
cise them to the extent of their powers; and with such dexterity do they strike 
the ball that it is sent out of sight. Another strikes it on its descent, and for ten 
minutes at a time the play is so adroitly managed that the ball does not touch 
the ground. No one is heard to complain, though he be bruised severely or his 
nose come in close communion with a club. If the last-mentioned catastrophe 
befel him, he is up in a trice, and sets his laugh forth as loud as the rest, 
though it be floated at first on a tide of blood. 
It is yery seldom, if ever, that one is seen to be angry because he has been 
hurt. If he should get so, they would call him a “ coward,” which proves a suffi- 
cient check to many evils which might result from many seemingly intended in- 
juries. 
Nririssrnc. Forty miles above Montreal, Quebec. 
J. A. Cuoq @ gives the following definitions: 
Pakatowan, jeu de crosse; pakatowanak, bois du jeu de crosse; pikwatwat, 
balle, pelota pour le jeu de crosse; kawaatikwan, 
abat-bois, boule & jouer aux quilles. 
PassaMAQuoppy. KEastport, Maine. 
(Cat. no. 11426, United States 
National Museum.) 
Hide ball (figure 753), made of a single 
piece with a thong drawstring at the 
a pls edge, forming a flattened spheroid; 
Gea ate Selenats diameter, 34 inches. Collected by Dr 
port, Maine; cat. no. 11426, Edward Palmer. 
Shaiya 1 a al Mr James Mooney ” states that the Passa- 
maquoddy usea ball stick (figure 754) with 
a strong. closely woven netting, which enables the stick to be used for 
batting. The sticks are ornamented with designs cut or burnt into 
the wood, and are sometimes further adorned with paint and feathers. 
° Lexique de la Langue Algonquine, Montreal, 1886. 
>The Cherokee Ball Play. The American Anthropologist, v. 3, p. 114, 1890. 
