cuLty] SHINNY : ZUAQUE 631 
Cuowcnitta. Chowchilly river, Madera county, California. (Cat. 
no. 70233, Field Columbian Museum. ) 
Two oak-wood balls, 3 inches in diameter. Collected by Dr J. W. 
Hudson, who describes the game as follows: 
Played only by men, who are divided in two equal sides, 
say fifteen on a side. The goals, which are each some 200 Omar 
yards from the center, are two trees or two posts, a long step, : \ FA 
or, say, 8 feet, apart. Two men standing side by side cast : a 
the ball up and strike it to their opponents’ goal. | ' 
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Wasama. Chowchilly river, Madera county, Cali- | I 
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Dr J. W. Hudson describes the following ballgame = | |" 
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under the name of miila: ie walang tl 
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Played with a club, mu-lau’ of mountain mahogany, and a | = i 
mahogany ball, o-lo’-la. = \ ; 
Two or more men play in couples or pairs from a start 8 aS ve 
line [figure 812]. The captains at station 1 strike their re- 4 = 
spective balls toward their respective partners at station 2. g | (ie 
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If the ball falls short of 2, the failing striker must forward = I 
his ball to station 2 by an additional stroke; when the ball E H ig 
passes into the territory of the partner at station 2, he (no. = 1 is 
2) must drive it forward from where it stopped. The last & \ 4 
stationed partner must drive it over the goal line. The small = 
est number of aggregate strokes on a side wins. Station re i H 
keepers must keep within their own territories. E Hey 
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Wallies Ply 
Opata. Sonora, Mexico. Tp mile tas 
Mr A. F. Bandelier” speaks of a game called = oe 
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uachicori, or shinny. en el 
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Taranumare. Chihuahua, Mexico. i one! 
Dr Carl Lumholtz ” states: 3 eet 
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In a game called taquari, a ball is knocked along the ground B | 
by one party of players toward a goal, while the opposite 5 
party strives to beat it back to the opposite goal : 
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ZuaquE. Sonora, Mexico. (Cat. no. 129853, United poet 
States National Museum.) ny se 
Irregular wooden ball (figure 813), somewhat rudely £ 
; it 
carved, 12 inches in diameter; and a roughly 
hewn stick, curved and flattened on the inner side at the end, 23 
inches in length. 
Described by the collector, Dr Edward Palmer, as a boy’s shinny 
stick and ball. 
“Final Report. Papers of the Archwological Institute of America, pt. 1, p. 240. Cam- 
bridge, 1890. 
*>Tarahumari Life and Customs. Scribner's Magazine, y. 16, p. 311, New York, 1894. 
