CULIN] DOUBLE BALL: CHEYENNE 649 
Dr J. Walter Fewkes@ described this performance as witnessed by 
him at Shipaulovi in the summer of 1891: 
These annulets [figure 848] [called yo-yo-nu-la] were made of wi'-po, a flag 
leaf, which is twisted into shape around a core of the same material. Into each 
was bound one or more live insects, ba’-chi-bi, a “skater” which lives on the 
surface of the water. The annulet was painted black, and to it was attached 
a handle made of twisted fibers of yucca leaves, forming a hoop across the 
annulet by which it can be carried. 
At the same time that the annulets were manufactured, a small cylinder [ figure 
849], about the length of the diameter of the annulets, or a little more, was whit- 
tled out of wood. This cylinder was painted 
black. . . . A small handle made of yucca 
fiber was securely fastened to it. 
“ 
In the march to the top of the mesa 
from the spring two girls each cast an 
annulet, and the boys the cylinder, into 
the cloud-terrace symbol |plate xx], 
which the priest traced with meal on 
the ground, using for the purpose the 
long black-snake baho. 
A similar cylinder and annulets are 
described by Doctor Fewkes” as em- 
ployed in the Mishongnovi Flute cere- 
mony in 1896. 
A stick with a small ring stands on 
each side of the altar of the Drab Flute 
at Oraibi, these being the implements Fig. 849. 
used by the girls in the ceremony de-  pyg. 848, Annulet baho, used in the 
scribed above. Flute ceremony; Hopi Indians, Shi- 
= : : Z paulovi, Arizona; from Fewkes. 
The double or tied billets used in this py. 849. Cylinder tossed in the Flute 
game may be referred to the two bows _ ¢eTemony; Hopi Indians, Shipaulovi, 
4p = S Arizona; from Fewkes. 
of the twin War Gods, and the other 
forms are probably derived from them. A suggestion as to the ori- 
gin of the tossing stick may be obtained from the Flute ceremony. 
ALGONQUIAN STOCK 
CHEYENNE. Oklahoma. (Cat. no. $2, American Museum of Natural 
History.) 
Two buekskin-covered balls (figure 850), 3 inches in diameter, some- 
what flattened, with median seam, painted yellow, with red bands 
on opposite side of the seam and green rings on opposite faces, 
connected by a thong 5 inches long. Collected by Mr Walter C. 
Roe and described as thrown with a stick. 
“Journal of American Ethnology and Archeology, vy. 2, p. 131, Boston, 1892. 
> Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, pt. 2, p. 999, 1900. 
