cuLriN] SHINNY: SHOSHONT 635 
Mr A. M. Stephen, in his unpublished manuscript, gives the fol- 
lowing definitions: 
Ball, ta-tei; shinny, or hockey, as practiced by white boys, ta-tate’-la-la-wih. 
Mono. Hooker cove, Madera county, California. (Cat. no. 71485, 
71436, Field Columbian Museum). 
Mahogany club (figure 822), with flat end shghtly curved, 54 inches 
in length, and small mountain mahogany ball. 
Collected by Dr J. W. Hudson, who describes it as of the Yokuts 
type. 
Five other clubs (figure 823) in the same collection (cat. no. 71434) 
are similar, but the striking part is narrow. Four of these are of 
oak and one is of mountain mahogany. 
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Fig. 822. 
Fig. 823. 
Fig. 822. Shinny ball and stick; length of stick, 54 inches; Mono Indians, Madera county, Cali- 
fornia; cat. no. 71435, 71436, Field Columbian Museum. 
Fia. 823. Shinny balland stick; length of stick, 50} inches; Mono Indians, Madera county, Cali- 
fornia: cat. no. 71434, Field Columbian Museum. 
Doctor Hudson gives the following account of the game under the 
name of nakwatakoina, to swing strike: 
Bach opponent starts his mahogany-wood ball, usually 17 inches in diameter, 
forward at a signal. Their partners at the next station forward their respec- 
tive balls to the next relay station, and so on. Interference with an opponent's 
ball, even by accident, is protested by loud “ Hip! he!!” which is at once 
apologized for by “ He-he-he!!” If a player should forward an opponent’s ball, 
this protesting cry recalls him to seek his own ball, while the distance made 
by the fouled stroke is kept by the fouled party. Every player has one or more 
substitute balls in his belt, so that when a ball is lost another is allowed in 
play. The balls must turn a goal stake, a-na’-na kwi-no hi’-na, “ man’s circling 
stake,” often a tree, about 400 yards from the starting line, and return to a hole, 
to’-op, at the starting line. The game may be played also to a goal straight 
away, several miles. Once a game was played between the Hooker Cove 
people and Whisky Creeks, in which they started at Hooker Cove, and the goal 
was in a field beside the road at Whisky Creek, 74 miles distant. 
Snosuont. Wind River reservation, Wyoming. (Cat. no. 36878, 
Free Museum of Science and Art, University of Pennsyl- 
vania. ) 
Stick (figure 825), ego, with a broad curved end and a knot at the 
handle; length, 244 inches; and a ball (figure 824), covered with 
buckskin, with median seam, in the form of a flattened sphere, 
34 inches in diameter. Collected by the writer in 1900. 
