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curved at the end, 31 inches in length, used for striking the ball, 
and the other slender, 32 inches in length, hooked at the end, 
used in running away with the ball. Collected by the writer in 
1900, and described by Dr George A. Dorsey * as follows: 
Keyuquah.—This is the well-known game of shinny, which is played, as a rule, 
‘“enly by young men. In former times it was only played at the celebration 
of the capture of a whale. Now it is played at any time. <A specimen of bat, 
lok-whiuk, was collected, which differs from the shinny stick as used by the tribes 
of the interior, in that it has no broad extended portion. The bat measures 
2 feet 9 inches in length, the lower 6 inches being curved out at an angle of 
twenty degrees. One side of this curved extremity is flattened. The speci- 
men collected of the ball (huoo) is made from the body of some large vertebra. 
Williams states that in former times the ball was invariably made of whalebone. 
The goals (loquatsis, for the mark) are two straight lines on the beach, about 
200 yards apart, and the starting point of the game is invariably from a point 
equidistant between the goal lines. 
Fig. 840. 
Fig. 838. Shinny ball; diameter, 3 inches; Makah Indians, Neah bay, Washington; cat. no. 
37387, Free Museum of Science and Art, University of Pennsylvania. 
Fia. 839. Shinny sticks; lengths, 31 and 32 inches; Makah Indians, Neah bay, Washington; cat. 
no. 37388, Free Museum of Science and Art, University of Pennsylvania. 
Fig. 840. Shinny ball and stick; diameter of ball, 1} inches; length of stick, 33 inches; Mission 
Indians, Mesa Grande, California; cat. no. 62539, Field Columbian Museum. 
YUMAN STOCK 
Misston Inprans. Mesa Grande, California. (Cat. no. 62539, Field 
Columbian Museum. ) 
Ball of wood (figure 840), painted brown, 1% inches in diameter, 
and stick, a round club, 33 inches in length, slightly curved and 
expanding toward the end. Collected by Mr C. B. Watkins. 
Monave. Parker, Yuma county, Arizona. (Field Columbian Mu- 
seum.,) 
Cat. no. 63395. Ball (figure 841), made of cordage, 13 inches in 
diameter. Another (cat. no. 63399) is somewhat smaller and 
unpainted. 
«Games of the Makah Indians of Neah Bay. The American Antiquarian, v. 23, p. 70, 
1901. 
