cuLtn] SHINNY: NAVAHO 623 
ATHAPASCAN STOCK 
MrkoNOTUNNE AND MisH1kKHWUTMETUNNE. Siletz reservation, Ore- 
gon. 
A. W. Chase ® says: 
One of the national games is extremely interesting. It is generally played by 
rival tribes, and is identical with that in vogue amongst our school-boys called 
hockey. Sides being chosen, each endeavors to drive a hard ball of pine wood 
around a stake «and in different directions. 
Navano. New Mexico. (Cat. no. 9530, United States National 
Museum. ) 
Buckskin ball (figure 801), bag shaped, with drawstring; diameter, 
13 inches. Collected by Dr Edward Palmer. 
Fig. 802. 
Fig. 800. Ball and stick for ice hockey; diameter of ball, 5 inches; length of stick, 41 inches; 
Sauk and Fox Indians, Iowa; cat. no. »2%*, +$,, American Museum of Natural History. 
Fig. 801. Shinny ball; diameter, 1} inches; Navaho Indians, New Mexico; cat. no. 9530, United 
States National Museum. 
Fig. 802. Shinny stick; length, 32 inches; Navaho Indians, Arizona; cat. no. 3629, Brooklyn 
Institute Museum. 
—— Chin Lee, Arizona. (Cat. no. 3629, Brooklyn Institute Mu- 
seum. ) 
Ball stick (figure 802), a peeled sapling curved at the striking end, 
with bark at the handle: length, 32 inches. Collected by the 
writer in 1903. 
Dr Washington Matthews describes the game of tsol, or ball, as the 
last of the games played by the young Hatsehogan with the gambling 
god Nohoilpi.? 
«Overland Monthly, v. 2, p. 433, San Francisco, 1869. 
» Navaho Legends, p. 84, Boston, 1897. 
