590 GAMES OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS [era. any. 24 
Monawk. Grand river, Ontario. (Cat. no. 38513, 38514, Free Mu- 
seum of Science and Art, University of Pennsylvania.) 
Racket for lacrosse (figure 761), consisting of a sapling curved at one 
end, the bent portion woven with a network of bark cord; length, 
48 inches. 
Fig. 761. Racket; length, 48 inches; Mohawk Indians, Grand river, Ontario; cat. no. 38513, Free 
Museum of Science and Art, University of Pennsylvania. 
Ball covered with buckskin (figure 762), round, 24 inches in diam- 
eter, the cover in one piece cut and sewed like a baseball. Col- 
lected by the writer in 1901. 
The name of the racket was given as ki-du-kwa-sta, and that of the 
ball as no-ha. The racket was explained as the old kind, with bast 
cords instead of twine, as is now used. 
Mr J. N. B. Hewitt * informed the 
writer that the use of bark as a network 
was only to replace sinew when that 
article was not obtainable. The bark 
of the slippery elm, boiled in water to 
make it pliable, wasemployed. He says: 
The network on the common Iroquois club 
was not drawn taut, but it was sufficiently taut 
to enable the player to throw the ball to a very 
great distance—a successful throw carrying 
Fra. 762. Ball; diameter, 2} inches; the ball about 20 rods—and yet the netting 
Mohawk Indians, Grand river, was loose enough to enable a skillful player 
Ontario; cat. no. 38514, Free oftentimes to earry the ball through a crowd 
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versity of Pennsylvania. of opposing players. On the regulation club 
used in the modernized game, which is very 
seldom played by the Iroquois, the network is made very taut, so that the net- 
work emits a twang when it is picked by the fingers. 4 
The goals or butts for the ball game were marked by poles or stakes, from 10 
to 15 feet in length, two in number, driven in the ground from 5 to 15 paces 
apart. The goal therefore was a square or quadrilateral space bounded on two 
sides by the two upright poles, on one side by the ground and on the other by a 
line connecting either the extreme ends of the poles or two marked points on the 
poles at some agreed height from the ground. The goals were placed from 40 to 
80 rods apart, according to the number and skill of the players. . . . 
The players to begin the game assemble on the ball-ground at a point mid- 
way between the goals, or butts. The two parties are then divided into couples, 
every player being paired with one of the opposite party, those paired being, as 
nearly as possible, of equal skill, agility, strength, and fleetness of foot. One of 
the players is placed immediately in front of the goal defended by his side, and 
another in front of the opposite goal. These two are called the door-guards. It 
is their duty to guard the goals against an opposing player who may attempt to 
“See The American Anthropologist, v. 5, p. 189, 1892. 
