622 GAMES OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS [=TH. Ann. 24 
GrosventrES. Fort Belknap reservation, Montana. (American Mu- 
seum of Natural History.) 
Cat. no. 728,. Buckskin ball with median seam, painted yellow, 
with a bear’s foot in green on one face; diameter, 3 inches. 
Cat. no. =2%5. Buckskin ball with median seam, one side painted 
red, with a cross, the other dark; diameter, 44 inches. 
Cat. no. ;3%;. Buckskin ball with median seam, a cross in red quill 
work on one face, a bow and arrow on the other: diameter, 24 
inches. 
Cat. no. ;3%;. Shinny stick, curved at the end; length, 2 feet 3 
inches. 
These specimens were collected by Dr A. L. Kroeber. 
Menominer. Wisconsin. 
Dr Walter J. Hoffman ¢ wrote: 
The women formerly played a game of ball in which two sides, composed of 
unlimited numbers, would oppose each other. At each end of the ball ground, 
which was several hundred yards in length, a pole was erected, to serve as a 
goal. Many of the players would surround their respective goals, while the 
strongest and most active women, playing about the middle of the ground, 
would endeavor to obtain the ball and throw it toward their opponents’ goal. 
The ball was made of deer hair tightly wrapped with thongs of buckskin, and 
covered with the same material. It measured about 3 inches in diameter. The 
women used sticks with a slight curve at the striking end, instead of a hoop, as 
on the sticks used by the men. 
The game was more like the well-known game of shinny than anything else, 
with the addition of having to cause the ball to strike the goal instead of being 
merely knocked across a certain score line. The guardians of the goals were 
expected to prevent the ball from touching the post, and a good strike might 
send it away over the active players’ heads, far toward their opponents’ goal. 
PownHatan. Virginia. 
William Strachey ” wrote: 
A kind of exercise they have amongst them much like that which boys call 
bandy in English. 
Sauk anp Foxes. JIowa. (Cat. no. 3%, 72%,, American Museum 
of Natural History. ) 
Leather-covered ball (figure 800) with median seam, flattened, 5 inches 
in diameter, and stick (figure 800), a sapling, curved at the 
striking end, 41 inches in length. 
Collected by Dr William Jones, who describes them as used in the 
game of ice hockey. Men and women play apart or together. The- 
goals are lines on opposite sides, across which the balls must be driven 
from either side to count. 
@The Menomini Indians. Fourteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, pt. 1, 
p. 244, 1896. 
+The History of Travaile into Virginia Brittania. Printed for the Hakluyt Society, 
p. 77, London, 1849. 
