CULIN] RACKET: YOKUTS 595 
the ball across the enemy’s base-line. They enjoy this sport immensely, laugh 
and vociferate until they are “ out of all whooping”; some tumble down and get 
their heads batted, and much diversion is created, for they are very good- 
natured and free from jangling in their amusements. One party must drive the 
ball a certain number of times over the other’s base line before the game is con- 
cluded, and this not unfrequently occupies them a half day or more, during 
which they expend more strenuous endeavor than they would in a day of honest 
labor in a squash-field. 
Powers describes the Pomo as staking fancy bows and arrows on 
their ball games. Of these articles they frequently have a number 
made only for gambling purposes—not for use in hunting. 
Pomo. Ukiah valley, Mendocino county, California. (Cat. no. 
70966, 70977, Field Columbian Museum.) 
Racket (figure 765), made of a bent oak stick, 40 inches in length, 
with twine mesh, and ball, of pepper-wood knot, 24 inches in 
diameter. Collected by Dr J. W. Hudson. 
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Fic. 765. Ball and racket; diameter of ball, 2} inches; length of racket, 40 inches; Pomo Indians, 
Mendocino county, California; cat. no. 70966, 70977, Field Columbian Museum. 
Seven miles south of Ukiah, Mendocino county, California. 
(Cat. no. 70946, 70947, Field Columbian Museum.) 
Racket of dogwood (figure 766), with rawhide lacings, 35 inches 
long; and ball, a pepperwood knot. Colleeted by Dr J. W. 
Hudson, who describes the gante as played by tossing the ball 
in the center of the field and contesting for it with netted sticks, 
under the name of tsitimpiyem : 
Fig. 766. Ball and racket; length of racket, 35 inches; Pomo Indians, Mendocino county, Cali- 
fornia; cat. no. 70946, 70947, Field Columbian Museum. 
The ball sticks, called tsi-tim’, are 3 feet in length. The goals, hui kali dako’ 
(hui!=we win!) are 6 feet high and 25 yards apart. The ball, pik6’, is 
usually of laurel (Umbellaria), but sometimes a deer knuckle bone. 
MARIPOSAN STOCK 
Yoxuts. Tule River agency, Tulare county, California. (Cat. no. 
70392, Field Columbian Museum.) 
Two willow saplings (figure 767), 50 inches in length, with an oak 
loop lashed on the lower end with sinew; accompanied by two 
smal] mistletoe-root balls coated with pitch and painted red. 
These are implements for a ball game, collected by Dr J. W. 
Hudson. 
