cuLrN] SHINNY: MAKAH 643 
An Isleta boy, J. Crecencio Lucero, described the people of this 
pueblo as playing a game of shinny with a soft buckskin ball, poja or 
pelota, which they hit with a stick, pojatu or chueco. Men and 
women play. 
Fig. 836. Shinny ball and stick; diameter of ball, 24 inches: length of stick, 30 inches; Tigua 
Indians, Isleta, New Mexico; cat. no. 22728, Free Museum of Science and Art, University of 
Pennsylvania. 
Tewa. Santa Clara, New Mexico. 
Mr T. S. Dozier * writes as follows: 
About the middle of January there is played a game that is to the Pueblos 
what baseball is to the Americans. It is nothing more or less than the old game 
of shinny, generally played on the ice, as with us. The pu-nam-be, or ball, used 
is a soft, light affair, made of rags and buckskin or wholly of buckskin. The 
pu-nam-be pfé, stick, is generally of willow, with a curved end, and is about 3 
feet long. Men, boys of all sizes, and girls of all ages, and now and then a 
married woman engage in the pastime. The sexes do not play together, nor the 
boys with men. Among the men wagers of every description are made. Dur- 
ing the past winter, in a game between the men, which lasted nearly a whole 
day, the side that was beaten had to dance a solemn dance for a whole day. 
Quite a difficulty arose on account,of it. 
Tesuque, New Mexico. (Cat. no. 23219, 23221, United States 
National Museum. ) 
Two shinny sticks (figure 837), made of bent saplings, the bark being 
left on the handle; lengths, 24 and 26 inches. Collected by 
Maj. J. W. Powell. 
Fic. 887. Shinny sticks; lengths, 24 and 26 inches; Tewa Indians, Tesuque, New Mexico; cat. 
no. 23219 and 23221, United States National Museum. 
WAKASHAN STOCK 
Makan. Neah bay, Washington. (Cat. no. 37387, 37388, Free Mu- 
seum of Science and Art, University of Pennsylvania.) 
Ball (figure 838), an irregular spheroid, 3 inches in diameter, made 
