602 GAMES OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS | [ETH. ann. 24 
on until the successful party arrived to 100, which was the limit of the game, 
and accomplished at an hour’s sun, when they took the stakes; and then, by a 
previous agreement, produced a number of jugs of whisky, which gave all a 
wholesome drink, and sent them all off merry and in good humor, but not drunk. 
Cuocraw. Indian Territory. (Cat. no. 6904, United States National 
Museum.) 
Ball stick, consisting of a stick with a round handle, the end shaved 
flat and curved to form a kind of spoon-shaped hoop, which is 
laced with thongs, one running horizontally across, and the other 
from end to end, the latter serving to lash the turned end of the 
stick to the handle; length, 30% inches. Collected by Dr Edward 
Palmer in 1868. 
Indian Territory. (Cat. no. 21967, Free Museum of Science 
and Art, University of Pennsylvania.) 
Pair of rackets (figure 771), one 30 and the other 28} inches in length, 
consisting of a hickory sapling, cut flat at one end, which is 
curved around to form a spoon-like hoop, the turned-over end, 
which terminates in a small knob, being lashed to the handle. 
Fig. 771. 
Fig. 771. Rackets; lengths, 30 and 28iinches; Choctaw Indians, Indian Ter- 
ritory; cat. no. 21967, Free Museum of Science and Art, University of 
Pennsylvania. 
Fic. 772. Horse tail worn in ball game: length, 25 inches; Choctaw 
Indians, Indian Territory; cat. no. 18764, Free Museum of Science and 
Art, University of Pennsylvania. 
Also, a tail (figure 772; cat. no. 18764), used in the 
ball game, consisting of a piece of a horse’s tail 
attached to a strip of wood by a thong and loop 
at the top; length, 25 inches. This was collected 
by Mr George E. Starr, who has furnished the 
following account of the game as witnessed by 
him at a place about 10 miles southwest of Red 
Oak, on the line of the Choctaw railroad, in In- 
dian Territory: 
The game was between Tobucksey and Sugarloaf counties 
of the Choctaw Nation. On the night before, the players went 
into camp near the place agreed upon. The season was the traditional one of 
the full moon of one of the summer months, and the company slept, without 
shelter, upon the ground. On their arrival, the new players. who had never 
been allowed to play before on the county teams. dressed themselves in ball 
costume, and, while their elders were arranging rules, ran around making 
Fig. 772. 
