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Towa. Missouri. 
George Catlin * says: 
Two byes, or goals, are established, at three or four hundred yards from each 
other, by erecting two poles in the ground for each, 4 or 5 feet apart, between 
which it is the strife of either party to force the ball (it having been thrown up 
at a point halfway between) by catching it in a little hoop, or racket, at the end 
of a stick, 3 feet in length, held in both hands as they run, 
throwing the ball an immense distance when they get it 
in the stick. The game is always played over an extensive 
prairie or meadow. 
Catlin says also: 
Previous to commencing on the exciting game of ball, as 
the goods of all playing are more or less at stake, each 
party must needs invoke the aid of supernatural influence 
to their respective sides; and for this purpose they give 
a very pretty dance, in which, as in the Scalp Dance, the 
women take a part, giving neat and curious effect to the 
scene. In most of the tribes this dance is given at inter- 
vals of every half hour or so, during the night previous to 
the play, preparing the minds and bodies of the players 
for this exciting scene, upon which they enter in the morn- 
ing with empty stomachs and decide before they leave the 
ground to eat. 
‘Oro. Oklahoma. (Cat. no. 71404, Field Colum- 
bian Museum.) 
Ball covered with buckskin (figure 785), 24 inches 
in diameter, and racket, a stick 40 inches in 
length with end bent to form a spoon-shaped 
hook, which is laced with buckskin. Collected 
in 1902 by Dr George A. Dorsey. 
Winnepsaco. Wisconsin. (Cat. no. 22159, 22160, 
Free Museum of Science and Art, Uni- 
versity of Pennsylvania.) 
Wooden ball (figure 786) ,3 inches in diameter, per- 
forated with six holes at right angles, and a 
racket “(figure 787), length 264 inches, con- 
sisting of a sapling cut and bent at the strik- 
ing end to form a hoop, which is laced with a 
throng and a cord crossing at right angles. 
Collected by Mr T. R. Roddy. 
The ball stick is called cha-pa-nun-a. The ball, wa-ki-hki, is perforated with 
holes in order to sound when flying through the air. 
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«The George Catlin Indian Gallery, p. 151, 1887. Annual Report of the Smithsonian 
Institution for 1885, 1887. 
