cULIn] RACKET: THOMPSON INDIANS 609 
in length, with its recurved lower end netted. There are four players to a side, 
each side having its captain, The ball is placed in the center of the field, 20 
feet distant from the captains. The umpire calls “Ha!” for the start. The 
goals, 500 yards apart, consist of wooden arches, 4 feet apart at bottom and 
6 feet high. 
No interference is permitted, under penalty of individual stakes. 
SALISHAN STOCK 
Sxoxomisu. British Columbia. 
Mr Charles Hill-Tout* mentions two kinds of ball games, kekqua 
and tequila. 
The former was a kind of lacrosse, and the ball was caught and thrown with 
an instrument similar to the lacrosse stick. 
Tompson Inpians (NriakyaramMun). British Columbia. 
James Teit” says: 
The other game was similar to that of “ lacrosse.” There were two sides and 
a goal for each, marked by stones or wooden pegs, or by long stakes half the 
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Fig. 780a. 
height of a man or more. The ball was like that used in the 
other game. It was placed in the middle of the ground, be- 
tween the two goals, and the object of either party was to drive 
it through the other’s goal. This was done by lifting and 
throwing it with the toe, or by striking it with the sticks 
which the players held in their hands. These sticks were 
about 3 feet long, and had a very crooked head [fig- 
ure 780a], so that the players could catch the ball 
with them and throw it from them toward the 
goal of the enemy. Many men ran with the .- 
ball held in the crook of the stick until 
stopped by an opponent, when they threw 
Fig. 780b. 
Fic. 70a, b. Ball sticks; lengths, 23) and 23 inches: Thompson Indians, British Columbia; cat. 
no. zhfy, 42x, American Museum of Natural History. 
the ball toward the intended goal. Others preferred, if they had a chance, to 
lift the ball with the toe, and before it fell strike or catch it with their stick. 
One man always tried to take the ball from his opponent with his stick. 
@ Notes on the Sk’q0’mic of British Columbia. Report of the Seventieth Meeting of the 
British Association for the Advancement of Science, p. 488, London, 1900. 
+The Thompson Indians of British Columbia. Memoirs of the American Museum of 
Natural History, whole series, vy. 2, p. 277, New York, 1900. 
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