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men is requested to make the distribution. Two small boys, about 12 years old, 
stand at the posts A, and two others are at D. One boy at each end tries to 
send the ball between the posts, but the other one attempts to send it in the 
opposite direction. These boys are called uhé gindji*. 
The game used to be played in three ways: (1.) Phratry against phratry. 
Then one of the players was not blindfolded. (2.) Village against village. 
The Omaha had three villages after 1855. . . . (3.) When the game was 
played neither by phratries nor by villages, sides were chosen thus: A player 
was blindfolded, and the sticks were placed before him in one pile, each stick 
having a special mark by which its owner could be identified. The blindfolded 
man then took up two sticks at a time, one in each hand, and, after crossing 
hands, he laid the sticks in separate piles. The owners of the sticks in one pile 
formed a side for the game. The corresponding women’s game is wabaonade. 
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Fig. 8384. Plan of shinny ball ground; Omaha Indians, Nebraska; from Dorsey. 
Osace. Oklahoma. (Cat. no. 59174, Field Columbian Museum.) 
Buckskin-covered ball (figure 835) 22 inches in diameter, cover in one 
piece, with median seam four-fifths round; and stick, a sapling, 
bent and squared at the end, 314 inches in length. 
Collected by Dr George A. Dorsey. 
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Fic. 835. Shinny ball and stick; diameter of ball, 2 inches; length of stick, 314 inches; Osage 
Indians, Oklahoma; cat. no. 59174, Field Columbian Museum. 
SKITTAGETAN STOCK 
Haima. Queen Charlotte islands, British Columbia. 
Mr James Deans“ says: 
It has been common from unknown times for all the native tribes on this 
coast to play the game of shinny, it being played in the same way our fathers 
used to play it, and as I have often played it myself, with crooked stick and 
wooden ball. 
TANOAN STOCK 
Tieua. Isleta, New Mexico. (Cat. no. 22728, Free Museum of Sci- 
ence and Art, University of Pennsylvania.) 
Ball (figure 836), covered with buckskin, flat, with median seam, 23 
inches in diameter; and a stick, a curved sapling, 30 inches in 
length. 
Collected by the writer in 1902. 
«Games of the Haidah Indians, 
