636 GAMES UF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS  [BTH. ANN. 24 
Uinta Ure. White Rocks, Utah. (Free Museum of Science and 
Art, University of Pennsylvania.) 
Cat. no. 37114. Buckskin ball (figure 826), bag shaped, with draw- 
string and thong; diameter, 34 inches. 
Cat. no. 37117. Shinny stick (figure 827), rudely whittled, with 
broad curved end; length, 274 inches. 
These specimens were collected by the writer in 1900. The ball is 
called pokunump, and the stick, beher. It is a woman’s game. 
Fig. 824. 
Fig. 826. Fig. 827. 
Fia. 824. Shinny ball; diameter, 3} inches; Shoshoni Indians, Wind River reservation, Wyo- 
ming; cat, no. 36878, Free Museum of Science and Art, University of Pennsylvania. 
Pic. 825. Shinny stick; length, 24} inches; Shoshoni Indians, Wind River reservation, Wyo- 
ming; cat. no. 36878, Free Museum of Science and Art, University of Pennsylvania. 
Fic. 826. Shinny ball; diameter, 3} inches; Uinta Ute Indians, White Rocks, Utah; cat. no. 
37114, Free Museum of Science and Art, University of Pennsylvania. 
Fic. 827. Shinny stick; length, 27} inches; Uinta Ute Indians, White Rocks, Utah; cat. no. 
37117, Free Museum of Science and Art, University of Pennsylvania. 
SIOUAN STOCK 
Assrniporn. Fort Union, Montana. 
In a report to Isaac I. Stevens, governor of Washington Territory, 
on the Indian tribes of the upper Missouri, by Mr Edwin T. Denig, a 
manuscript in the library of the Bureau of American Ethnology, 
there occurs the following account: 
Most of these tribes, particularly the Sioux, are fond of playing in parties. 
The principal game at ball is called tah-cap-see-chah, being the same denomi- 
nated shinny, or bandy, by the whites. It is generally got up when two different 
bands are camped together, and a principal person in each having made a bet 
of a blanket or gun, they choose from their bands an equal number of young 
men, who are always the most active they can select, the number varying from 
fifteen to forty on each side. Sometimes the play is headed by the chief of each 
band betting, though they take no part in the game, which is usually played by 
men of 20 to 30 years of age. Each of the players stakes something against an 
