52 GAMES OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS  [erH. any. 24 
Sauk anp Foxes. Iowa. (American Museum of Natural History.) 
Cat. no. y$%,. Racket (figure 756) made of hard wood, with the end 
shaved thin and turned around to form a circular hoop, which is 
laced with cord passing through the edge; length, 294 inches. 
Collected by Dr William Jones in 1901. 
Cat. no. $35. Buckskin-covered ball (figure 757), 22 inches in diam- 
eter, bag-shaped, with thong attached at the edge of the seam. 
Collected in 1901 by Dr William Jones, who describes it as a 
lacrosse ball. A bundle of twenty pieces of reed (figure 758), 94 
inches in length, in the same collection, is described as message sticks 
for the lacrosse game. 
Fia. 758. 
Fig. 755. Ball; diameter, 4 inches; Penobscot Indians, Maine; cat. no. 48236, Peabody Museum 
of American Archeology and Ethnology. 
Fie. 756. Racket; length, 29} inches; Sauk and Fox Indians, Iowa; cat. no 38;, American 
Museum of Natural History. 3 
Fig. 757. Ball; diameter, 2} inches; Sauk and Fox Indians, Iowa; cat. no. site, American 
Museum of Natural History. 
Fig. 758. Message sticks for ball game; length, 9; inches; Sauk and Fox Indians, Iowa; cat. 
no, $$;, American Museum of Natural History. 
Tama, Iowa. (Cat. no. 36753, Free Museum of Science and 
Art, University of Pennsylvania.) 
Hickory stick (figure 759), with the end turned over to form a small 
hoop, which is netted with thong; length, 50} inches. Collected 
by the writer in 1900. 
These Indians stated that they no longer matke their own balls. 
The ball game they call bagahatuwitni, and the stick, otchi. 
Dr William Jones informed me that the ball, pekwaki, used in 
this game, was bag-shaped and drawn up with a thong. 
