cuLrn] DOUBLE BALL 647 
The name of the ball was given as poppun and that of the stick as 
poppun kapnaki tammai. 
Mrs Matilda Coxe Stevenson® speaks of the game of popone 
tkapnane, ball hit, as the same as shinny or bandy, and says that the 
Zuni assert that the game came from Mexico long ago. 
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Fic. 845. Shinny ball and stick; diameter of ball, 2 inches; length of stick, 35 inches; Zuni 
Indians, Zuni, New Mexico; cat. no. 3077, 3569, Brooklyn Institute Museum. 
Zcxi. Zuni, New Mexico. (Cat. no. 4999, Brooklyn Institute Mu- 
seum. ) 
Buckskin-covered ball (figure 846), ovate, with median seam, 8 inches 
in greatest diameter. Collected by the writer in 1904. 
This is used in the man’s game of shinny. po-pone-kap-na-kwai. 
The goals consist of circles in the sand on the east and west sides of the 
village. A hole is dug midway between, in which the ball is placed 
and covered with sand. Each man makes a 
lightning mark with his stick. The object 
is to drive the ball into the opponent’s cir- 
cle. They bet on the game. The smaller 
balls are used by boys. 
Fig. 846. Shinny ball; diameter, 
8 inches; Zuni Indians, Zuni, 
The game of double ball throughout the Se ise ata tet 
eastern United States and among the Plains 
tribes is played exclusively by women, and is commonly known as the 
woman’s ball game. In northern California, however, it is played by 
men. 
The implements for the game consist of two balls or similar objects 
attached to each other by a thong, and a curved stick with which they 
are thrown. 
The balls vary in shape and material. Among the Cheyenne two 
small slightly flattened buckskin balls are used. The Wichita balls 
are smaller, with a long cut-leather fringe. Among the Sauk and 
Foxes and other Algonquian tribes the balls are oblong, weighted 
with sand, and frequently both, with the connecting thong, are made 
of one piece of buckskin. These pass by an easy transition into a 
single long buckskin-covered piece, somewhat narrow in the middle, 
as among the Paiute. 
Dovusie Batt, 
# American Anthropologist, n. s., v. 5, p. 496, 1903. 
