596 GAMES OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS  [&TH. ANN. 24 
The two balls are laid side by side on the ground at the end of the 
course, and at a word the captains dip them up with their spoon 
sticks and cast them forward to their mates, who send them on to the 
nearest pair of opponents. The course is about 1,200 yards—around 
a tree and back to the first goal. There are usually eight players, 
three and a captain on each side. 
Fig. 767. Balland racket; length of racket, 50 inches; Yokuts Indians, Tule River agency, Tulare 
county, California; cat. no. 70392, Field Columbian Museum. 
The game is called wip-i-watch (to lift on the end of a stick); the ball, 
o-lol; the stick, wi-pat; the starting goal, to-liu, and the turning stake, tsa-lam. 
It is played only by men. 
Fig. 768. Ball baskets; lengths, 16 and 18 inches; Miwok Indians, Tuolumne county, California; 
in the collection of Dr C. Hart Merriam. 
MOQUELUMNAN STOCK 
Miwox. Bald Rock, Tuolumne county, California. (Collection of 
Dr C. Hart Merriam.) 
Two spoon-shaped willow baskets (figure 768), one 16 and the other 
18 inches in length, the longer stiffened by a crosspiece near the 
handle. 
Collected by Doctor Merriam and described by him-as used by 
women in catching the ball, posko, in the game called amtah. 
