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lives. The ball was finally knocked by After-birth-Boy over a small 
creek that had been selected as a goal. 
The Headless-Man’s ball was black and his shinny stick was black. 
The two boys had a green ball and green sticks, green representing 
the spring of the year. Since that time the shinny game is played in 
the spring, under the power of the After-birth-Boy.« 
There is a similar episode in the story of “The Little Brown 
Hawks,” in which the four brother Swift-Hawks and their father 
played successively against Boy-setting-Grass-on-Fire-by-his-Foot- 
steps, lost their lives and were clubbed with a shinny club. The play- 
ground extended north and south, and it was a long way from goal to 
goal. The game consisted in tossing the ball and one hitting it, the 
first running in the direction they were headed, the other following 
him. A posthumous brother of the four Swift-Hawks finally over- 
‘rame Boy-setting-Grass-on-Fire-by-his-Footsteps. When the ball 
was tossed up, hail began to fall instead of the ball coming down. 
All of the hail came down on Boy-setting-Grass-on-Fire-by-his-Foot- 
steps, and on him alone, and killed him. Those whom he had killed 
were brought to life by burning his body. 
CHIMMESYAN STOCK 
Nisxa. Nass river, British Columbia. 
Dr Franz Boas“ describes the following game: 
Gontl: a ball game. There are two goals, about 100 to 150 yards apart. 
Each is formed by two sticks, about 10 feet apart. In the middle, between the 
goals, is a hole in which the ball is placed. The players carry hooked sticks. 
Two of them stand at the hole, the other players of each party, six or seven in 
number, a few steps behind them towards each goal. At a given signal, both 
players try to strike the ball out of the hole. Then each party tries to drive it 
through the goal of the opposing party. 
CHUMASHAN STOCK 
Santa Barpara. Santa Barbara, California. 
Alfred Robinson @ says: 
In front of the house was a large square, where the Indians assembled on 
Sunday afternoons to indulge their favorite sports and pursue their chief 
amusement—gambling. Here numbers were gathered together in little knots, 
who appeared engaged in angry conversation; they were adjusting, as Daniel 
informed me, the boundary lines for the two parties who were to play that 
afternoon at ball, and were thus occupied till dinner time. When I returned 
from dinner they had already commenced; and at least two or three hundred 
«The Mythology of the Wichita, p. 99, Washington, 1904. 
+ Tbid., p. 247. 
¢ Fifth Report on the Indians of British Columbia. Report of the Sixty-fifth Meeting 
of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, p. 583, London, 1895. 
4VLife in California, p. 105, San Francisco, 1891. 
