CULIN] RACKET: CAUGHNAWAGA 
Saux anp Foxes. Oklahoma. (Cat. no. 93%,, Amer- 
ican Museum of Natural History.) 
Racket made of hickory, with the end cut thin and 
turned around to form an oval hoop, as shown 
in figure 760; length, 42 inches; the circumfer- 
ence is perforated with five holes, through which 
thongs pass to form a network, as illustrated in 
the figure. Collected by Dr William Jones. 
Fig. 759. Racket; length, 50 inches; Sauk and Fox Indians, Tama, 
Towa; cat. no. 36753, Free Museum of Science and Art, University of 
Pennsylvania. 
Suawnee. Indian Territory. 
Dr William Jones informs me that the lacrosse 
game, while usually played by men alone, is played 
also by men and women on opposite sides, the men 
using the sticks and the women their hands. In this 
latter case the goals, hoop wickets, are nearer to- 
gether than when men play alone. 
CHINOOKAN STOCK 
Curnook. Fort Vancouver, Washington. 
Paul Kane ® says: 
They also take great delight in a game with a ball, which 
is played by them in the same manner as the Cree, Chippewa, 
and Sioux Indians. Two poles are erected about a mile 
apart, and the company is divided into two bands, armed 
with sticks, having a small ring or hoop at the end, with 
which the ball is picked up and thrown to a great distance ; 
each party then strives to get the ball past their own goal. 
There are sometimes a hundred ona side, and the play is kept 
up with great noise and excitement. At this game they bet 
heavily, as it is generally played between tribes and villages. 
IROQUOIAN STOCK 
CAUGHNAWAGA. Quebec. 
Col. James Smith ” thus describes a game: 
... they used a wooden ball about 3 inches in diameter, 
and the instrument they moved it with was a strong staff 
about 5 feet long with a hoop net on the end of it, large 
enough to contain the ball. Before they begin to play, they 
lay off about half a mile distance in a clear plain, and the 
opposite parties all attend at the center, where a disinter- 
* Wanderings of an Artist among the Indians of North America, 
p. 190, London, 1859. See also The Canadian Journal, p. 276, 
Toronto, July, 1855. 
®’An Account of the Remarkable Occurrences in the Life und 
Travels of Col. James Smith, p. 78, Cincinnati, 1870. 
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