CULIN] SHINNY: GROSVENTRES 621 
Curved stick (figure 798), painted red, 24 inches in length. 
These were collected by Dr William Jones in 1903. 
Grosventres. Fort Belknap reservation, Montana. (Cat. no. 60356, 
Field Columbian Museum.) 
Buckskin-covered ball with median seam, painted red, 34 inches in 
diameter, and stick made of sapling, curved at one end and 
painted red, 31 inches in length (figure 799). 
Fig. 799. 
Fic.796. Shinny ball and stick; diameter of ball, 4 inches; length of stick, 38 inches; Cheyenne 
Indians, Montana; cat. no. 69648, Field Columbian Museum. 
Fic. 797. Shinny ball and stick; diameter of ball, 3f inches; length of stick,3linches; Cheyenne 
Indians, Montana; cat. no. 69979, Field Columbian Museum. 
Fig. 798. Shinny ball and stick; diameter of ball, 44 inches; length of stick, 24 inches; Chip- 
pewa Indians. Turtle mountain, North Dakota; cat.no. 7#4,, American Museum of Natural His- 
tory. 
Fic. 799. Shinny ball and stick; diameter of ball, 3} inches; length of stick, 31 inches; Gros- 
ventre Indians, Montana; cat. no. 60356, Field Columbian Museum. 
These were collected in 1900 by Dr George A. Dorsey, who describes 
them as used in the game of shinny, kakawaasethi, a game of ball 
played with a curved stick and a buckskin-covered ball, kawa, slightly 
flattened on two sides. 
Formerly this was a popular game among the young men of the tribe, who 
played among themselves or against a team representing some rival tribe. The 
object of the game was to advance the ball by batting it with sticks to some 
goal, against the effort of the opposing team. 
